Direct Inference of the Spectra of Pericardial Potentials Using the Boundary-Element Method

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 498-507

  Beetner, Daryl G ^a   Arthur, R Martin ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency components; Human data; Inverse electrocardiology; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033163584     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.223     Document Type: Article

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