A low-cost high-efficiency fiber-optic coupler for recording action potentials within the myocardial wall

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1708-1711

  Idriss, Salim F ^a,b   Pitruzzello, Ann M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Electrooptic transducers; Fluorescence; Optical mapping; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROOPTIC TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL MAPPING; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE;

CARDIOLOGY;

GLASS FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RABBITS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33746650553     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873758     Document Type: Article

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