Automated versus manual measurement of the QT interval and corrected QT interval

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-164

  Kasamaki, Yuji ^a   Ozawa, Yukio ^a   Ohta, Masakatsu ^a   Sezai, Akira ^a   Yamaki, Takashi ^b   Kaneko, Mutsuo ^b   Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a   Nakayama, Tomohiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUDA DENSHI CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

automated measurement; differential threshold method; manual measurement; QT interval; tangent method

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; QT INTERVAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; TANGENT METHOD;

ADULT; DRUG EVALUATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 79955033373     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2011.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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