Computational issues arising in multidimensional elliptic inverse problems: The inverse problem of electrocardiography

Engineering Computations

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 343-356

  Olson, Lorraine G ^a   Throne, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigensystem Inverse problems Electrocardiography Tikhonov regularization Finite element

Indexed keywords

EIGENSYSTEMS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0004348611     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409510799631     Document Type: Article

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