• DocumentCode
    1202267
  • Title

    Capability and Limitations of Electrocardiography and Magnetocardiography

  • Author

    Plonsey, Robert

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1972
  • fDate
    5/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    239
  • Lastpage
    244
  • Abstract
    The capabilities and limitations of electrocardiography and magnetocardiography are discussed. Representing the electrical activity of the heart by an impressed current density ji, electrocardiography determines the spherical harmonic multipole expansion of its divergence (flux source), while magnetocardiography determines the spherical harmonic multipole expansion of the radial component of its curl (vortex source).
  • Keywords
    Biomedical measurements; Conductivity; Current density; Electrocardiography; Heart; Magnetic confinement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic flux; Torso; Voltage; Electrocardiography; Humans; Magnetics; Methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1972.324123
  • Filename
    4120516