Body surface laplacian electrocardiographic mapping - A review

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 475-510

  He, Bin ^a   Cohen, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body surface laplacian mapping; Cardiac mapping; Dipole model; Electrocardiography; Heart model; Laplacian electrogram

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER MODEL; DIPOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030484733     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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