Analytical validation of the BEM - Application of the BEM to the electrocardiographic forward and inverse problem

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-106

  Fischer, G ^a   Tilg, B ^a   Wach, P ^a   Lafer, G ^a   Rucker, W ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrocardiographic forward problem; Inverse problem; Transmembrane potential

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIAL;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0032008062     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(97)00060-6     Document Type: Article

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