Title :
Localizing myocardial ischemia by means of body surface Laplacian imaging
Author :
He, B. ; Aldea, G.S. ; Mullen, T. ; Amoundas, A. ; Chung, A. ; Cohen, R.J.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Health Sci. & Technol., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The authors have investigated the sensitivity of body surface Laplacian imaging (BSLI) to localize and image myocardial ischemias in a closed chest pig model. The present study suggests that BSLI provides high spatial resolution in noninvasively localizing acute myocardial ischemia, and that the precordial Laplacian ECG provides higher sensitivity in sensing ischemic activity as compared with the unipolar ECG
Keywords :
electrocardiography; muscle; body surface Laplacian imaging; closed chest pig model; ischemic activity sensing; myocardial ischemia localization; noninvasive diagnostic technique; noninvasive localization; precordial Laplacian ECG; spatial resolution; unipolar ECG; Animals; Catheters; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Helium; High-resolution imaging; Ischemic pain; Laplace equations; Myocardium; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the 1994 20th Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
Springfield, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1930-3
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.1994.305170
