Electroanatomical characterization of atrial microfibrosis in a histologically detailed computer model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2339-2349

  Campos, Fernando O ^a,b   Wiener, Thomas ^a   Prassl, Anton J ^a   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^c   Sanchez Quintana, Damian ^d   Ahammer, Helmut ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a,e   Hofer, Ernst ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex fractionated atrial electrograms; Fibrosis classification; Monodomain model

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL ELECTROGRAMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING; FRACTIONATION PATTERNS; MONODOMAIN MODEL; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION; STIMULATION PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TEXTURES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIAL MICROFIBROSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FRACTIONATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880779617     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2256359     Document Type: Article

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