Computer simulation of epicardial potentials using a heart-torso model with realistic geometry

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-217

  Weixue, Lu ^a   Ling, Xia ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EPICARDIAL POTENTIALS; HEART TORSO MODEL; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART DISEASE; MICROCOMPUTER; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PURKINJE FIBERS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030088116     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.481990     Document Type: Article

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