Corrected Unipositional Lead System for Vector Magnetocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-34, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 81-90

  Eskola, Hannu J ^a   Malmivuo, Jaakko A V ^b   Nousiainen, Juha J O ^b   Lekkala, Jukka O ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MAGNETICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

LEAD SYSTEMS; VECTOR MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY (VMCG);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0023289460     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1987.326087     Document Type: Article

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