Optimizing the geometry of implantable leads for recording the monophasic action potential with fractally coated electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1 II, 1998, Pages 227-230

  Lang, Volker ^a   Merkely, Béla ^b   Gellér, László ^b   Kiss, Orsolya ^b   Ströbel, Jörg P ^a   Schaldach, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Action potential; Field theory; Leads; Monophasic action potential

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; SILVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; GEOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOGS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTALS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; IRIDIUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031929595     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01093.x     Document Type: Article

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