Display of activation fronts on a 3D reconstruction of the left atrium of a dog heart

Author

Linnenbank, André C. ; Snel, Jeroen G. ; Hocini, Meleze ; Potse, Mark ; de Bakker, J.M.T. ; Grimbergen, Cornelis A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Phys., Amsterdam Univ., Netherlands

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

90

Abstract

A 3D reconstruction of a 197-lead multiterminal electrode in the shape of the left atrial cavity of a dog heart was made using a CT scan and software was designed to interactively determine local activation times and display these onto a 3D representation of the multiterminal electrode

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; data visualisation; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; mesh generation; signal reconstruction; signal representation; 3D reconstruction; 3D representation; CT scan; Delaunay triangulation; ECG analysis; atrial fibrillation; deformable triangulation model; display of activation fronts; dog heart; left atrium; local activation times; multiterminal electrode; pulmonary veins role; triangular mesh; volume preserved averaging; Atrial fibrillation; Biomedical electrodes; Cardiology; Computed tomography; Heart; Physics; Shape; Three dimensional displays; Veins; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.745830

Filename

745830