The Dipolar ElectroCARdioTOpographic (DECARTO)-like method for graphic presentation of location and extent of area at risk estimated from ST-segment deviations in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 172-180

  Bacharova, Ljuba ^a   Mateasik, Anton ^a   Carnicky, Jan ^a   Ubachs, Joey F A ^b   Hedström, Erik ^b   Arheden, Hakan ^b   Engblom, Henrik ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Area at risk; ECG; Myocardial infarction; SPECT; ST deviation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIPOLAR ELECTROCARDIOTOPOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 60349086971     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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