Value of simulated body surface potential maps as templates in localizing sites of ectopic activation for radiofrequency ablation

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-400

  Hren, Rok ^a   Horáček, B Milan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic ventricular myocardium; Body surface potential mapping; Computer model; Ectopic activation; QRS integral maps

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ANISOTROPY; CATHETERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MAPPING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE POTENTIAL;

ANISOTROPIC VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPS; COMPUTER MODELS; ECTOPIC ACTIVATION; LOCALISATION; QRS-INTEGRAL MAP; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

EID: 0030782326     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/18/4/010     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. AHA/ACC Recommendation on Tomographic Imaging 1992 Standardization of cardiac tomographic imaging: An ACC/AHA policy statement J Am. Coll. Cardiol 20 255-6
2. Barr R and Spach M S 1978 Inverse calculation of QRS-T epicardial potentials from body surface potential distributions for normal and ectopic beats in the intact dog Circ. Res 42 661-75
3. Boineau J P, Schluessler R B, Eisenberg S B, Tweddell J S, Harada A, Rokkas C K and Cox J L 1993 Potential distribution mapping of ventricular tachycardia Cardiac Mapping ed M Shenasa, M Borggrefe and G Breithardt (Mount Kisco, NY: Futura) pp 85-104
4. Borggrefe M et al 1995 Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary heart disease Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside ed D Zipes and J Jalife (Philadelphia, PA: Saunders) pp 1502-17
5. Coggins D L, Lee R J, Sweeney J, Chein W W, Van Hare G, Epstein L, Gonzales R, Griffin J C, Lesh M D and Scheinman M 1994 Radiofrequency catheter ablation as a cure for idiopathic tachycardia of both left and right origin J. Am. Coll. Cardiol 23 1333-41
6. van Dam R 1976 Ventricular activation in human and canine bundle branch block The Conduction System of the Heart: Structure. Function and Clinical Implications ed H Wellens, K Lie and M J Janse (Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger) pp 377-92
7. Daoud E and Morady F 1995 Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia Curr. Opinion Cardiol. 10 21-5
8. DeMunck J C 1992 A linear discretization of the volume conductor boundary integral equation using analytically integrated elements IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 39 986-90
9. DiMarco J P and Haines D E 1993 Surgery for ventricular tachycardia: Is mapping necessary? Cardiac Mapping ed M Shenasa, M Borggrefe and G Breithardt (Mount Kisco, NY: Futura) pp 525-31
10. Dubuc M, Nadeau R, Tremblay G, Kus T, Mohn F and Savard P 1993 Pace mapping using body surface potential maps to guide catheter ablation of accessory pathways in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome Circulation 87 135-43
11. Durrer D, van Dam R, Freud G E, Janse M J, Meijler F L and Arzbaecher R C 1970 Total excitation of the isolated human heart Circulation 41 899-912
12. Eifler W J, Macchi E, Ritsema van Eck H J, Horáček B M and Rautaharju P M 1981 Mechanism of generation of body surface electrocardiographic P-waves in normal, middle, and lower sinus rhythms Circ. Res 48 168-82
13. Geselowitz D B 1967 On bioelectric potentials in an inhomogeneous volume conductor Biophys. J. 7 1-11
14. Harris L, Downar E, Mickleborough L L, Shaikh N and Parson I D 1987 Activation sequence of ventricular tachycardia: endocardial and epicardial mapping studies in the human ventricle J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 10 1040-7
15. Hauer R N W, de Zwart M T, de Bakker J M T, Hitchcock J F, Penn O C K M, Nijsen-Karelse M and Robles de Medina E O 1986 Endocardial catheter mapping: wire skeleton technique for representation of computed arrhythmogenic sites compared with intraoperative mapping Circulation 74 1346-54
16. Hayashi H, Watabe S, Takami K, Yabe S, Uematsu H, Mizutani M and Saito H 1988 Sites of origin of ventricular premature beats in patients with and without cardiovascular disease evaluated by body surface mapping J. Electrocardiol. 21 137-46
17. Horáček B M 1974 Numerical model of an inhomogeneous human torso Adv. Cardiol. 10 51-7
18. Horáček B M, Smith E R, Cameron D A, Gewirtz H and Rautaharju P M 1979 Iso-integral analysis of body-surface potential maps Progress in Electrocardiology ed P W Macfarlane (Tunbridge Wells: Pitman Medical) pp 22-7
19. Horowitz L N, Josephson M E and Harken A H 1980 Epicardial and endocardial activation during sustained ventricular tachycardia in man Circulation 61 1227-338
20. Hren R 1996 A realistic model of the human ventricular myocardium, application to the study of ectopic activation PhD Thesis Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
21. Hren R, Nenonen J, MacInnis P, and Horáček B M 1995a Simulated activation from endocardial pacing sites in an anisotropic model of human ventricles Building Bridges in Electrocardiology ed A van Oosterom, T F Oostendorp and G J H Uijen (Nijmegen. University Press Nijmegen) pp 156-7
22. _ 1995b Simulated body-surface potential maps for paced activation sequences in human ventricles Computers in Cardiology ed A Murray and R Arzbaecher (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press) pp 95-8
23. Hren R and Stroink G 1995 Application of surface harmonic expansions for modeling the human torso IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 42 521-4
24. Hren R, Zhang X and Stroink G 1995c The effect of conductivity inhomogeneities on the body-surface potential and magnetic field inverse solutions Biomagnetism: Fundamental Research and Clinical Applications ed L Deecke et al (Amsterdam: Elsevier) pp 680-3
25. _ 1996 Comparison between electrocardiographic and magnetocardiographic inverse solutions using the boundary element method Med. Biol. Eng Comp. 34 110-14
26. Josephson M E, Waxman H L, Cain M E, Gardner M J and Buxton A E 1982 Ventricular activation during ventricular endocardial pacing. II. Role of pace-mapping to localize origin of ventricular tachycardia Am. J. Cardiol. 50 11-22
27. Kamakura S, Aihara N, Matsuhisa M, Ohe T and Shimomura K 1986 The role of initial minimum potentials on body surface maps in localizing the earliest endocardial site of ectopic vetricular excitation (abstract) Circulation 74 11-138
28. Klersy C, Vigano M, Martinelli L, Chimienti M and Salerno J A 1986 Body surface map and location of origin of ventricular tachycardia. Comparison with epicardial map Electrocardiographic Body Surface Mapping ed R van Dam and A van Oosterom (Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff) pp 105-8
29. Klug D, Ferracci A, Molin F, Dubuc M, Savard P, Kus T, Hélie F, Cardinal R and Nadeau R 1995 Body surface potential distributions during idiopathic ventricular tachycardia Circulation 91 2002-9
30. Kottkamp H, Chen X, Hindricks G, Willems S, Haverkamp W, Wichter T, Breithardt G and Borggrefe M 1995 Idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia: New insights into electrophysiological characteristics and radiofrequency catheter ablation PACE 18 1285-97
31. Leon L J and Horáček B M 1991 Computer model of excitation and recovery in the anisotropic myocardium. I. Rectangular and cubic arrays of excitable elements J. Electrocardiol. 24 1-15
32. Lu W and Xia L 1996 Computer-simulation of epicardial potentials using a heart-torso model with realistic geometry IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 43 211-7
33. MacLeod R S, Gardner M J, Miller R M, and Horáček B M 1995 Application of an electrocardiographic inverse solution to localize ischemia during coronary angioplasty J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 6 2-18
34. Miller W T III and Geselowitz D B 1978 Simulation studies of the electrocardiogram. 1. The normal heart Circ. Res 43 301-15
35. Montague T J, Smith E R, Cameron D A, Rautaharju P M, Klassen G A, Flemington C S and Horáček B M 1981 Isointegral analysis of body surface maps: surface distribution and temporal variability in normal subjects Circulation 63 1166-72
36. Mukai J, Nakagawa H, Nagata K, Marakawa S, Shimizu W, Tsuchioka Y, Okamoto M, Masura H and Kajiyama G 1993 Long-term results of catheter ablation for idiopathic ventricular tachycardia originated from the right ventricular outflow tract Japan Circ. J. 57 960-8
37. Nakagawa H et al 1993 Radiofrequency catheter ablation of idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia guided by a Purkinje potential Circulation 88 2607-17
38. Nenonen J, Edens J A, Leon L J and Horáček B M 1991 a Computer model of propagated excitation in the anisotropic human heart. I. Implementation and algorithms Computers in Cardiology ed A Murray and R Arzbaecher (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE. Computer Society Press) pp 545-8
39. _ 1991b Computer model of propagated excitation in the anisotropic human heart. II. Simulation of extracardiac fields Computers in Cardiology ed A Murray and R Arzbaecher (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press) pp 217-20
40. Nielsen P M F, LeGrice I J, Smaill B H and Hunter P J 1991 Mathematical model of geometry and fibrous structure of the heart Am. J. Physiol. 260 H1365-78
41. Purcell C J and Stroink G 1991 Moving dipole inverse solutions using realistic torso models IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng 38 82-4
42. Rudy Y and Oster H 1992 The electrocardiographic inverse problem CRC Crit. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 20 25-46
43. Savard P, Nadeau R, Shenasa M, Pagé P, Kaltenbrunner W and Cardinal R 1993 Thoracic and epicardial potential distributions during induced ventricular tachycardia in patients with prior myocardial infarction Cardiac Mapping ed M Shenasa, M Borggrefe and G Breithardt (Mount Kisco, NY: Futura) pp 335-45
44. Savard P, Shenasa M, Pagé P, Cardinal R, Derome D and Nadeau R 1987 Body surface potential mapping of induced ventricular tachycardia in man: Electrocardiographic and surgical correlations (abstract) Circulation 76 IV-438
45. Schlitt H A, Heller L, Aaron R, Best E and Ranken D M 1995 Evaluation of boundary element methods for the EEG forward problem: effect of linear interpolation IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 42 52-8
46. Simms H D Jr and Geselowitz D B 1995 Computation of heart surface potentials using the surface source model J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 6 522-31
47. SippensGroenewegen A, Hauer R N W, van Hemel N M, Kingma J H, de Bakker J M T, Janse M J and Robles de Medina E O 1993a Design and clinical application of a body surface mapping reference database for detailed localization of ventricular tachycardia foci in patients without structural cardiac disease Cardiac Mapping ed M Shenasa, M Borggrefe and G Breithardt (Mount Kisco, NY: Futura) pp 347-63
48. SippensGroenewegen A, Spekhorst H, van Hemel N M, Kingma J H, Hauer R N W, Grimbergen C A, de Bakker J M T, Janse M J and Dunning A J 1993b Localization of the site of origin of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia by endocardial pace mapping: body surface mapping compared with the 12-lead electrocardiogram Circulation 88 2290-306
49. _ 1994 Value of body surface mapping in localizing the site of origin of ventricular tachycardia in patients with previous myocardial infarction J Am. Coll. Cardiol 24 1708-24
50. _ 1990 Body surface mapping of ectopic left and right ventricular activation: QRS spectrum in patients without structural heart disease Circulation 82 879-96
51. SippensGroenewegen A, Spekhorst H, van Hemel N M, Kingma J H, Hauer R N W, Janse M J and Dunning A J 1992 Body surface mapping of ectopic left ventricular activation: QRS spectrum in patients with prior myocardial infarction Circ. Res. 71 1361-78
52. Streeter D D Jr 1979 Gross morphology and fiber geometry of the heart Handbook of Physiology-Section 2: The Cardiovascular System ed R Berne, N Sperelakis and S Geiger (Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society) pp 61-112
53. Taccardi B, Macchi E, Lux R L, Ershler P R, Spaggiari S, Baruffi S and Vyhmeister Y 1994 Effect of myocardial fiber direction on epicardial potentials Circulation 90 3076-90
54. Ushijima S, Iwa T and Magara T 1985 Diagnosis of the site of origin of ventricular tachycardia by body surface mapping Advances in Electrocardiology ed P d'Alche (Caen: Centre de Publications de l'Université de Caen) pp 89-91
55. Waxman H L and Josephson M E 1982 Ventricular activation during ventricular endocardial pacing. I Electrocardiographic patterns related to the site of pacing Am. J Cardiol. 50 1-10
56. Wen M S, Yehand S J, Wang C C, Lin F C Chen I C and Wu D 1994 Radiofrequency ablation therapy in idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia with no obvious structural heart disease Circulation 89 1690-6
57. Xu Z, Gulrajani R M, Molin F, Lorange M, Dubé B, Savard P and Nadeau R 1996 A computer heart model incorporating anisotropic propagation. III. Simulation of ectopic beats J. Electrocardiol. 29 73-90