Fragmentation of bandpass-filtered QRS-complex of patients prone to malignant arrhythmia

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 723-728

  Endt, P ^a   Hahlbohm, H D ^a   Kreiseler, D ^a   Oeff, M ^b   Steinhoff, U ^a   Trahms, L ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

FIR bandpass filtering; Fragmentation; Intra QRS complex; Malignant tachycardia; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTER; MALIGNANT TACHYCARDIA; QRS COMPLEX;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FILTER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; QRS COMPLEX; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0032211099     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02518875     Document Type: Article

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