A new real-time mapping system to detect microscopic cardiac excitation patterns

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 455-461

  Mohr, Guenther ^a   Hofer, Ernst ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BUFFER STORAGE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROSENSORS;

CARDIAC EXCITATION PATTERNS;

BIOSENSORS;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUINEA PIGS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032868379     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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