A. Reinke, D. Potyagaylo, W. H. W. Schulze, and O. Dössel. Geometrical model and corresponding conductivities for solving the inverse problem of ECG. In Biomedizinische Technik / Biomedical Engineering, vol. 59(s1) , pp. 937-940, 2014
Abstract:
Solving the inverse problem of electrocardiography could help to diagnose and to plan the treatment of heart diseases. The conductivity distribution within the body is important to solve the inverse problem. In this work the influence of neglecting an organ as an inhomogeneity on the forward and inverse problem was investigated. For different simplified body models optimal conductivities were determined by minimizing the error between the BSPMs produced by this model and reference BSPMs calculated with a complex model containing eight segmented organs. The BSPMs from simulated catheter stimulations were used for the optimization. With the obtained optimal conductivities lead-field matrices were calculated and compared to the lead-field matrix of the complex model. Besides the heart, the lungs and the intracardial blood, we found that the liver also plays an important role to describe the relationship between the activation in the heart and the body surface potential map correctly.
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A. Reinke. Optimal geometrical model and corresponding conductivities for solving the inverse problem of ECG. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Bachelorarbeit. 2014