Abstract
The foremost premise for the success of noninvasive volumetric myocardial transmembrane (TMP) imaging from body surface potential (BSP) recordings is a realistic yet efficient electrocardiographic model which relates volumetric myocardial TMP distribution to BSP distribution. With a view towards this inverse problem, the heart-torso representation and the associated TMP-to-BSP model should balance the accuracy of the model with the feasibility of TMP reconstruction. We present a novel coupled meshfree-BEM platform to this TMP-to-BSP modeling and perform electrocardiographic simulations of various cardiac conditions on personalized heart-torso structures. Simulated QRS integral maps, BSPMs and ECG leads are consistent with existent experimental studies, verifying the plausibility of the presented platform.
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Wang, L., Wong, K.C.L., Zhang, H., Shi, P. (2009). Electrocardiographic Simulation on Coupled Meshfree-BEM Platform. In: Ayache, N., Delingette, H., Sermesant, M. (eds) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01932-6_18
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