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Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography

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Barr, RC; Pilkington, TC; Boineau, JP; Spach, MS
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
1966

Presents a method for determining the potentials over the surface of a three-dimensional volume due to internal current sources. The volume may be inhomogeneous and irregularly shaped. The method for determining the potentials uses N simultaneous equations which when solved produce the potentials at N different surface points. The N simultaneous equations are solved by an iterative technique on an IBM computer. A valuable application of this method is the determination of surface potentials from computer simulations of realistic electromotive distributions within the heart. In this connection, computer generated maps of surface potentials from a simulated heart have been produced and compare favorably with maps recorded from the torso of a dog.

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Roger C. Barr
Author Roger C. Barr Biomedical Engineering

Published In

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Publication Date

1966

Volume

BME-13

Issue

2

Start / End Page

88 / 92

Related Subject Headings

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
 

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Barr, R. C., Pilkington, T. C., Boineau, J. P., & Spach, M. S. (1966). Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, BME-13(2), 88–92.
Barr, R. C., T. C. Pilkington, J. P. Boineau, and M. S. Spach. “Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography.” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering BME-13, no. 2 (1966): 88–92.
Barr RC, Pilkington TC, Boineau JP, Spach MS. Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 1966;BME-13(2):88–92.
Barr, R. C., et al. “Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography.” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. BME-13, no. 2, 1966, pp. 88–92.
Barr RC, Pilkington TC, Boineau JP, Spach MS. Determining surface potentials from current dipoles, with application to electrocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 1966;BME-13(2):88–92.

Published In

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Publication Date

1966

Volume

BME-13

Issue

2

Start / End Page

88 / 92

Related Subject Headings

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering
  • 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing