FORCE TRENDS AND PULSATILITY FOR CATHETER CONTACT IDENTIFICATION IN INTRACARDIAC ELECTROGRAMS DURING ARRHYTHMIA ABLATION

The intracardiac electrical activation maps are commonly used as a guide in the ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.The use of catheters with force sensors has been proposed in order to know if the electrode is in contact with the tissue during the registration of intracardiac electrograms (EGM).Although threshold criteria on force signals are often us

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