Ranking the influence of tissue conductivities on forward-calculated ecgs

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1568-1576

  Keller, David U J ^a   Weber, Frank M ^a   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conductivity uncertainties; electrocardiographic forward problem; inhomogeneity; model simplification

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BLOOD;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CONDUCTIVITY CHANGES; FORWARD PROBLEM; IF SIGNALS; INHOMOGENEITY MODEL; MAXIMUM VALUES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY;

MUSCLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRUNK; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THORAX; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; THORAX; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECTS;

EID: 77953773573     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2046485     Document Type: Article

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