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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGORITHM TO GUIDE A MULTI-POLE DIAGNOSTIC CATHETER FOR IDENTIFYING THE LOCATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION SOURCES
| Title: | DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGORITHM TO GUIDE A MULTI-POLE DIAGNOSTIC CATHETER FOR IDENTIFYING THE LOCATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION SOURCES. |
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| Name(s): |
Ganesan, Prasanth, author Ghoraani, Behnaz, Thesis advisor Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor College of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Created: | 2019 | |
| Date Issued: | 2019 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 141 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a debilitating heart rhythm disorder affecting over 2.7 million people in the US and over 30 million people worldwide annually. It has a high correlation with causing a stroke and several other risk factors, resulting in increased mortality and morbidity rate. Currently, the non-pharmocological therapy followed to control AF is catheter ablation, in which the tissue surrounding the pulmonary veins (PVs) is cauterized (called the PV isolation - PVI procedure) aims to block the ectopic triggers originating from the PVs from entering the atrium. However, the success rate of PVI with or without other anatomy-based lesions is only 50%-60%. A major reason for the suboptimal success rate is the failure to eliminate patientspecific non-PV sources present in the left atrium (LA), namely reentry source (a.k.a. rotor source) and focal source (a.k.a. point source). It has been shown from several animal and human studies that locating and ablating these sources significantly improves the long-term success rate of the ablation procedure. However, current technologies to locate these sources posses limitations with resolution, additional/special hardware requirements, etc. In this dissertation, the goal is to develop an efficient algorithm to locate AF reentry and focal sources using electrograms recorded from a conventionally used high-resolution multi-pole diagnostic catheter. | |
| Identifier: | FA00013310 (IID) | |
| Degree granted: | Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): | Includes bibliography. | |
| Subject(s): |
Atrial Fibrillation--diagnosis Algorithm Catheter ablation |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013310 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
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| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
