Vortex shaped current sources in a physical torso phantom

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 240-247

  Liehr, Mario ^a,b   Haueisen, Jens ^a   Goernig, Matthias ^b   Seidel, Paul ^b   Nenonen, Jukka ^c,d   Katila, Toivo ^c,d  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Inverse solution; Magnetocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CURRENT DIPOLES; INVERSE SOLUTION; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; VORTEX CURRENTS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX;

EID: 17044391353     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-8983-6     Document Type: Article

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