The Role of Computer Modeling in Electrocardiography

A. van Oosterom

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634809

Methods of Information in Medicine, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Methods Inf Med 1990; 29(04): 282-288
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634809

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The Role of Computer Modeling in Electrocardiography

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A. van Oosterom

¹Laboratory of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

This paper introduces some levels at which the computer has been incorporated in the research into the basis of electrocardiography. The emphasis lies on the modeling of the heart as an electrical current generator and of the properties of the body as a volume conductor, both playing a major role in the shaping of the electrocardiographic waveforms recorded at the body surface. It is claimed that the Forward-Problem of electrocardiography is no longer a problem. Several source models of cardiac electrical activity are considered, one of which can be directly interpreted in terms of the underlying electrophysiology (the depolarization sequence of the ventricles). The importance of using tailored rather than textbook geometry in inverse procedures is stressed.

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Forward Models - Electrocardiography

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