Correlation between P-wave morphology and origin of atrial focal tachycardia-insights from realistic models of the human atria and torso

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2952-2955

  Colman, Michael A ^a   Aslanidi, Oleg V ^a   Stott, Jonathan ^a   Holden, Arun V ^b   Zhang, Henggui ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial arrhythmias; body surface ECG; human atria model; P wave morphology (PWM)

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FOCAL POINTS; MODEL SIMULATION; P-WAVE MORPHOLOGY (PWM); REALISTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES;

FOCUSING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; P WAVE; SIMULATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRUNK;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TORSO;

EID: 80053141198     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2161305     Document Type: Article

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