TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 25. Atrial Fibrillation
A1  - MacLeod, Rob
A1  - Blauer, J.J.E.
A2  - Pahlm, Olle
A2  - Wagner, Galen S.
PY  - 2011
T2  - Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging: Principles and Clinical Applications
AB  - Atrial  fibrillation  (AF)  is  the  most  common  form  of  cardiac  arrhythmia,  so  a  review  of  the  role  imaging  in  AF  is  a  natural  topic  to  include  in  this  book.  Further  motivation  comes  from  the  fact  that  the  treatment  of  AF  probably  includes  more  different  forms  of  imaging,  often  merged  or  combined  in  a  variety  of  ways,  than  perhaps  any  other  clinical  intervention.  A  typical  clinical  electrophysiology  lab  for  the  treatment  of  AF  usually  contains  no  less  than  six  and  often  more  than  eight  individual  monitors,  each  rendering  some  form  of  image-based  information  about  the  patient  undergoing  therapy.  There  is  naturally  great  motivation  to  merge  different  images  and  different  imaging  modalities  in  the  setting  of  AF,  but  this  is  also  very  challenging  as  a  result  of  a  host  of  factors,  including  the  small  size,  extremely  thin  walls,  large  natural  variation  in  atrial  shape,  and  the  fact  that  fibrillation  is  occurring  so  atrial  shape  is  changing  rapidly  and  irregularly.  Thus,  the  use  of  multimodal  imaging  has  recently  become  a  very  active  and  challenging  area  of  image  processing  and  analysis  research  and  development,  driven  by  an  enormous  clinical  need  to  understand  and  treat  a  disease  that  affects  approximately  five  million  Americans  alone,  a  number  that  is  predicted  to  increase  to  almost  16  million  by  2050.1  
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PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=8765019
ER  -