Statistical Accuracy of a Moving Equivalent Dipole Method to Identify Sites of Origin of Cardiac Electrical Activation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1360-1370

  Armoundas, Antonis A ^a   Feldman, Andrew B ^b   Mukkamala, Ramakrishna ^c   He, Bin ^d   Mullen, Thomas J ^e   Belk, Paul A ^e   Lee, Yueh Z ^f   Cohen, Richard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Catheter ablation; Equivalent moving dipole

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION; RADIO FREQUENCIES (RF);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; HEART CATHETER; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0344925582     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.819849     Document Type: Article

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