Forward and Inverse Problems of Electrocardiography: Modeling and Recovery of Epicardial Potentials in Humans

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 249-256

  Shahidi, A Vahid ^a   Savard, Pierre ^a   Nadeau, Réginald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; ERROR; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; SIMULATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; HEART; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERICARDIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0028233213     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.284943     Document Type: Article

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