European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 26, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(19):2368; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp263
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Intra-aortic phased-array imaging: new guiding tool for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
1 Center of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine III
2 Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Heart Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
* Corresponding author. Tel: +43 512 50481992, Fax: +43 512 50422767, Email: thomas.bartel@i-med.ac.at
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With the introduction of the 8F AcuNavTM catheter (Siemens-Acuson Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA), also used for intracardiac echocardiography, intra-aortic phased-array imaging (IPAI) became feasible