Image-based model of atrial anatomy and electrical activation: A computational platform for investigating atrial arrhythmia

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-27

  Zhao, Jichao ^a   Butters, Timothy D ^b   Zhang, Henggui ^b   Legrice, Ian J ^a   Sands, Gregory B ^a   Smaill, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial electrical activation; atrial fibrillation (AF); myofiber organization; posterior left atrium; structure tensor analysis

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPLEX SUBSTRATES; COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; COMPUTER MODELS; EIGENANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED MODELS; KEY FEATURE; LEFT ATRIUMS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; REDUCED ORDER; REPOLARIZATION; SINUS NODE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; STRUCTURE TENSORS; SURFACE GEOMETRIES; VOLUME IMAGE;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISEASES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TENSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANATOMIC MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART REPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; SINUS NODE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL FUNCTION; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOFIBRILS; SHEEP;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871952356     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2227776     Document Type: Article

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