Proactive esophageal cooling during laser cardiac ablation: A computer modeling study.

Tatiana Gomez Bustamante Marcela Mercado Enrique Berjano Ana Gonzalez-Suarez Erik Kulstad

Published in: Lasers in surgery and medicine (2024)

PEC reduces the potential for esophageal injury without degrading the intended cardiac lesions for a variety of different tissue thicknesses. Thermal latency may influence lesion formation during laser ablation and may play a part in any collateral damage.

Keyphrases

left ventricular
high speed
deep learning
heart failure
catheter ablation
machine learning
mass spectrometry
risk assessment
high resolution