Effects of Material Properties and Geometry on Electrocardiographic Forward Simulations

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 721-741

  Bradley, C P ^a   Pullan, Andrew J ^a   Hunter, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conductivity effects; Coupled FEM BEM; Electrocardiographic simulation; Forward problem; Geometric effects; High order interpolation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THORAX; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABDOMEN; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANISOTROPY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THORAX;

EID: 0034230555     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1289467     Document Type: Article

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