On the Estimation of the Laplacian Electrocardiogram during Ventricular Activation

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-745

  Wu, Dongsheng ^a   Chie Tsai, Ho ^b   He, Bin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Body surface Laplacian map; Body surface potential map; Computer modeling; Electrocardiography; Laplacian ECG; Laplacian estimation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0033220147     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.224     Document Type: Article

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