Early detectors of the heart's electrical activity

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 422-424

  Breathnach, Caoimhghín S ^a   Westphal, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burdon Sanderson; ECG history; Einthoven; Matteucci; Physiological rheoscope; Von K lliker

Indexed keywords

CARDIOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GALVANIC CURRENT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCIATIC NERVE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EUROPE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645713658     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00363.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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