Title :
Non-invasive imaging of cardiac electric activity
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
fDate :
29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
Abstract :
It is of importance to non-invasively image cardiac electrical activity from body surface ECG measurements. Such approaches include body surface ECG mapping and ECG inverse solutions to deduce information on the distribution of cardiac bioelectrical sources. Body surface Laplacian ECG mapping is a recently proposed imaging approach which has shown promise in enhancing our capability to non-invasively image underlying cardiac electrical activity. In this short paper, we review recent progress on non-invasive imaging of cardiac electrical activity, in particular, body surface Laplacian ECG mapping
Keywords :
Laplace equations; electrocardiography; inverse problems; medical signal processing; reviews; ECG inverse solutions; Laplacian ECG mapping; bioelectrical sources distribution; body surface ECG mapping; body surface ECG measurements; cardiac electric activity; digital signal processing; noninvasive imaging; spatial resolution; Bioelectric phenomena; Electric potential; Electrocardiography; Heart; Inverse problems; Laplace equations; Mathematical model; Spatial resolution; Surface reconstruction; Torso;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5164-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1998.745809