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Editorial
. 2017 Sep;10(9):e005634.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.117.005634.

Rotors: How Do We Know When They Are Real?

Konstantinos N Aronis  1 , Ronald D Berger  1 , Hiroshi Ashikaga  2
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Editorial

Rotors: How Do We Know When They Are Real?

Konstantinos N Aronis et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2017 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; algorithms; atrial fibrillation; electrophysiology; radius; rotation.

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The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.

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Figure 1
Schematic summary of the steps involved in rotor identification as well as the relevant technical considerations for each step. Highlighted with an asterisk (*) are the considerations that the current work of Rodrigo et al. successfully addressed as described in the main text.
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