An experimental study on the effect of the anisotropic regions in a realistically shaped torso phantom

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1836-1843

  Şengül, Gökhan ^a   Liehr, Mario ^b   Haueisen, Jens ^b,c   Baysal, Uǧur ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Electrocardiography; Magnetocardiography; Source reconstruction; Torso phantom

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BIOMAGNETISM; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ANISOTROPIC; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURES; BIOMAGNETIC SIGNALS; CURRENT DIPOLES; DIPOLE ORIENTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GUAR GUMS; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; HUMAN BODIES; MEASURED SIGNALS; ORIENTATION ESTIMATIONS; ORTHOGONAL ALIGNMENTS; PARALLEL ALIGNMENTS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION; SOURCE RECONSTRUCTIONS; SOURCE STRENGTHS; TORSO PHANTOM; VOLUME CONDUCTORS;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 54849440315     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-008-9551-7     Document Type: Article

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