The effect of geometric and topologic differences in boundary element models on magnetocardiographic localization accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1237-1247

  Pesola, Katja ^b,c   Lötjönen, Jyrki ^a,b,c,d   Nenonen, Jukka ^b,c   Magnin, Isabelle E ^a,d   Lauerma, Kirsi ^c   Fenici, Riccardo ^e   Katila, Toivo ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary element modeling; Equivalent current dipole localization; Magnetocardiography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT VOLUME MODEL; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCULATION; CONDUCTOR; DIPOLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TRUNK;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0034283512     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.867958     Document Type: Article

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