Is accurate recording of the ECG surface Laplacian feasible?

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 377-381

  Geselowitz, David B ^a,b   Ferrara, Jason E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Moberg Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram (ECG); Human studies; Model studies; Signal to noise; Surface Laplacian

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HUMAN STUDIES; MODEL STUDIES; SURFACE LAPLACIAN;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EXCITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QRS COMPLEX; ROTATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN ELECTRODE; SKIN POTENTIAL; TECHNIQUE; THORAX; TIME; TRUNK; VALIDATION PROCESS; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032925386     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.752934     Document Type: Article

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