Sathya Vijayakumar1,
2, Ravi Ranjan2, Derek J. Dosdall2, Kyungpyo Hong2,
3, Daniel Kim1, 2, Nassir F. Marrouche2,
Eugene G. Kholmovski1, 2
1UCAIR,
Dept. of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 2CARMA,
Dept. of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; 3BioEngineering,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
This work examines the contrast kinetics of post radio-frequency ablation lesions in the myocardium of a pacemaker induced atrial fibrillation canine model. We image these dogs, immediately after ablation procedure for a duration of 2.5 hours and repeat imaging every week after.