Effect of myocardial fiber direction on epicardial potentials

Circulation

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 3076-3090

  Taccardi, Bruno ^a,c   Macchi, Emilio ^b   Lux, Robert L ^a   Ershler, Philip R ^a   Spaggiari, Santa ^b   Barufdi, Silvana ^b   Vyhmeister, Yonild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropy; electric stimulation; electrocardiography; mapping; potentials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPICARDIUM; HEART EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028630541     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.90.6.3076     Document Type: Article

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