Spatiotemporal frequency analysis of ventricular fibrillation in explanted human hearts

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 328-335

  Umapathy, Karthikeyan ^a,b   Massé, Stephane ^b   Sevaptsidis, Elias ^b   Asta, John ^b   Krishnan, Sidhar ^a   Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominant frequency (DF); Instantaneous mean frequency (IMF); Isolated human hearts (IHH); Time frequency analysis; Ventricular fibrillation (VF)

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT FREQUENCY (DF); INSTANTANEOUS MEAN FREQUENCY (IMF); ISOLATED HUMAN HEARTS (IHH); TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (VF);

SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; DOMINANT FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTANTANEOUS MEAN FREQUENCY; ISOLATED HEART; NERVE BLOCK; SUDDEN DEATH;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 63849118137     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006031     Document Type: Article

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