An Assessment of Variable Thickness and Fiber Orientation of the Skeletal Muscle Layer on Electrocardiographic Calculations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1069-1076

  Stanley, Peggy C ^a,b   Pilkington, Theo C ^a   Morrow, Mary N ^a   Ideker, Raymond E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Siemens Gammasonics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS - MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

ECG COMPUTATIONS; EPICARDIAL POTENTIALS; FIBER ORIENTATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE LAYER; TORSO POTENTIALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THORAX;

EID: 0026261938     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.99070     Document Type: Article

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