Measurement of thoracic current flow in pigs for the study of defibrillation and cardioversion

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1167-1173

  Yoon, Richard S ^a   DeMonte, Tim P ^a   Hasanov, Karshi F ^a   Jorgenson, Dawn B ^b   Joy, Michael L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Current density imaging; Current flow; Defibrillation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

DEFIBRILLATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; THORAX;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CADAVER; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SWINE; THORAX;

EID: 0141733116     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.816082     Document Type: Article

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