Projecting Cardiac-Current Images onto a 3-D Standard Heart Model

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 517-520

  Ogata, K ^a   Kandori, A ^a   Miyashita, T ^a   Tsukada, K ^a   Yamada, S ^b   Shimizu, W ^c   Nakatani, S ^c   Miyatake, K ^c   Yamaguchi, I ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac current image; Heart model; Magnetocardiogram

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; SQUIDS; VISUALIZATION;

CARDIAC CURRENT IMAGES; HEART MODELS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542332691     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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