A triangulation method of an arbitrary point set for biomagnetic problems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 2, 1998, Pages 2228-2233

  Lötjönen, Jyrki ^a,b,c,d   Reissman, Pierre Jean ^b,d   Magnin, Isabelle E ^a,d   Nenonen, Jukka ^b,c   Katila, Toivo ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Bioelectromagnetism; Boundary element modeling; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

BIOELECTROMAGNETISM; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; VORONOI POLYGONS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 0032118767     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.703860     Document Type: Article

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