Recent progress in inverse problems in electrocardiology

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-83

  MacLeod, Robert S ^a,c,d,e   Brooks, Dana H ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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

^f TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTIVATION WAVEFRONTS; POTENTIAL BASED FORMULATIONS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031907090     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.646224     Document Type: Review

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