A model study of body surface Laplacian maps for myocardial infarctions

Author

Schablowski, M. ; Wu, D. ; Ono, K. ; Hosaka, H. ; He, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

338

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine by means of computer simulation the capability of Body Surface Laplacian Maps (BSLMs) to localize and image infarctions located inside the myocardium. The present study is based on a previously developed finite element model of the ventricles which consists of some 30,000 cubic finite elements. During the ST-segment the BSLMs clearly localize and image two spatially separate infarcted regions on the anterior, the lateral and the posterior epicardium and the anterior endocardium. The present simulation results suggest that body surface Laplacian mapping has enhanced performance in localizing and imaging myocardial infarctions

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; boundary-elements methods; electrocardiography; finite element analysis; medical computing; muscle; physiological models; ST-segment; anterior endocardium; anterior epicardium; body surface Laplacian maps; boundary element model; computer simulation; cubic finite elements; finite element model; infarctions imaging; lateral epicardium; myocardial infarctions; posterior epicardium; potential map; spatially separate infarcted regions; torso model; ventricles; Biomedical engineering; Computer simulation; Electrocardiography; Finite element methods; Heart; Helium; Laplace equations; Myocardium; Solid modeling; Torso;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.754544

Filename

754544