[EN] Interventional techniques for pain treatment have importantly increased in recent years, and particularly those based on radiofrequency energy, both thermal and pulsed. This report clarifies some important concepts ...
Effect of Fat Deposition on the Performance in RF Ablation
IntroductionThe outcomes of catheter ablation of scar-mediated ventricular tachycardia (VT) remain far from perfect. The presence of fat as a component of the ...
Pérez, Juan J; Perez-Cajaraville, Juan J.; Muñoz, Victor; Berjano, Enrique(American Association of Physicists in Medicine: Medical Physics, 2014-07)
Purpose: Pulsed RF (PRF) is a nonablative technique for treating neuropathic pain. Bipolar PRF application is currently aimed at creating a "strip lesion" to connect the electrode tips; however, the electrical and thermal ...
Pérez, Juan J; D Avila, Andre; Aryana, Arash; Berjano, Enrique(Blackwell Publishing, 2015)
[EN] Electrical and Thermal Effects of Esophageal Temperature Probes
IntroductionLuminal esophageal temperature (LET) monitoring is commonly employed during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) to detect high ...