Fiberglass needle electrodes for transmural cardiac mapping

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 12 I, 2002, Pages 1639-1641

  Rogers, Jack M ^a   Melnick, Sharon B ^a   Huang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Plunge needle; Unipolar mapping; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

NEEDLES;

FIBERGLASS REINFORCED EPOXIES;

ELECTRODES;

EPOXIDE; GLASS FIBER; STEEL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; HEART BEAT; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; HEART VENTRICLES; NEEDLES; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0036932840     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.805483     Document Type: Article

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