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Virtual heart guides cardiac ablation

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A computational model of the heart that finds the optimal ablation sites to treat infarct-related ventricular tachycardia eliminates the need for invasive electrical mapping.

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Fig. 1: Virtual-heart ablation targets (VAAT).

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  1. Willerson Centre for Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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