Thoracic geometry and its relation to electrical current distribution: Consequences for electrode placement in electrical impedance cardiography

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 592-597

  Raaijmakers, E ^a   Faes, Th J C ^a   Goovaerts, H G ^a   Meijer, J H ^a   De Vries, P M J M ^a   Heethaar, R M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electrode placement; Modelling; Stroke volume; Thoracic impedance

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ELECTRODE PLACEMENT; NECK THORAX TRANSITION; STROKE VOLUME; THORACIC GEOMETRY; THORACIC IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; THORAX;

CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STROKE VOLUME; THORAX;

EID: 0032168102     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02524429     Document Type: Article

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