Modeling atrial fiber orientation in patient-specific geometries: A semi-automatic rule-based approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6666 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 223-232

  Krueger, Martin W ^a   Schmidt, Viktor ^a   Tobón, Catalina ^b   Weber, Frank M ^a   Lorenz, Cristian ^c   Keller, David U J ^a   Barschdorf, Hans ^c   Burdumy, Michael ^a   Neher, Peter ^a,c   Plank, Gernot ^d   Rhode, Kawal ^e   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Sanchez Quintana, Damien ^f   Saiz, Javier ^b   Razavi, Reza ^e   Dössel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

atrial anisotropy; atrial heterogeneity; atrial modeling; fiber orientation; patient specific modeling

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL HETEROGENEITY; ATRIAL MODELING; FIBER ORIENTATION; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

FIBERS;

EID: 79957647018     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21028-0_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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