Inverse Solution in Electrocardiography: Determining Epicardial from Body Surface Maps by Using the Finite Element Method

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1981, Pages 1312-1322

  Yamashita, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body surface map; Epicardial map; Forward transfer function; Ill conditioned problem; Inverse problem; Regularization

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART; METHODOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0019778588     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.45.1312     Document Type: Article

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