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Vascular: Pulmonary Veins

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This chapter describes a Dual Source CT (DSCT) protocol for accurate visualization of the left atrium and pulmonary veins preceding and following radio-frequency catheter ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation (AF).

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  1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Harald Brodoefel MD, Martin Heuschmid MD (Associate Professor) & Andreas F. Kopp MD (Professor of Radiology)

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  1. Harald Brodoefel MD
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Brodoefel, H., Heuschmid, M., Kopp, A.F. (2008). Vascular: Pulmonary Veins. In: Seidensticker, P.R., Hofmann, L.K. (eds) Dual Source CT Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77602-4_12

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