Automatically generated, anatomically accurate meshes for cardiac electrophysiology problems

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1318-1330

  Prassl, Anton J ^a,b   Kickinger, Ferdinand ^c   Ahammer, Helmut ^b   Grau, Vicente ^d   Schneider, Jürgen E ^d   Hofer, Ernst ^d   Vigmond, Edward J ^d   Trayanova, Natalia A ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a,b,d,e  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c CAE Software Solutions   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTER POWER; DATA SETS; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; HEART MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVITY; LEVEL OF DETAIL; REALISTIC MODEL; SMOOTH SURFACE; STRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 60349099013     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2014243     Document Type: Article

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