A comparison of biventricular and conventional transvenous defibrillation: A computational study using patient derived models

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 586-593

  Mocanu, Daniel ^a   Kettenbach, Joachim ^b   Sweeney, Michael O ^b   Kikinis, Ron ^b   Kenknight, Bruce H ^c   Eisenberg, Solomon R ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biventricular defibrillation; Critical mass; Finite volume method; ICD; Modeling; Sequential shocks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442423861     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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