Electrocardiographic simulation on personalised heart-torso structures using coupled meshfree-BEM platform

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-200

  Wang, Linwei ^a   Zhang, Heye ^b   Wong, Ken C L ^a   Liu, Huafeng ^c   Shi, Pengcheng ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

body surface potentials; boundary element method; BSP; electrocardiography; meshfree methods; TMP; tomographic images; transmembrane potentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951713704     PISSN: 17562104     EISSN: 17562112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIPM.2009.027591     Document Type: Article

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