DefibViz: A visualization tool for the assessment of electrode parameters on transthoracic defibrillation thresholds

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-86

  Russomanno, David J ^a   de Jongh Curry, Amy L ^a   Atanasova, Galina S ^a   Hunt, Leslie C ^a   Caleb Goodwin, J ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Simulation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

ELECTRIC MYOCARDIUM; OPEN-SOURCE GRAPHICS; TRANSTHORACIC DEFIBRILLATION THRESHOLD; VOLUMETRIC DATASETS;

DEFIBRILLATORS;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 39449124090     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.899511     Document Type: Article

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