Title :
Studying on Conductivity of Cardiac Tissues in Magnetocardiography
Author :
Zhao, Chen ; Zhang, Wei ; Jiang, Shiqin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Two approaches, indirectly estimate and directly calculate the conductivity of cardiac tissues, were studied by using real magnetocardiography (MCG) data. The first approach is to estimate the magnetic induction produced by the volume current firstly, then, to calculate the conductivity. The second approach is to directly calculate the conductivity. Our results verified that the effective cardiac conductivity could be reasonably close to that was measured by other methods. The cardiac conductivity of normal and abnormal subjects from an experimental point of view was also discussed.
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biological tissues; electric current measurement; electrical conductivity measurement; electromagnetic induction; magnetocardiography; cardiac tissue conductivity calculation; cardiac tissue conductivity estimation; effective cardiac conductivity; magnetic induction estimation; magnetocardiography; real MCG data; volume current; Cardiac tissue; Conductivity; Educational institutions; Heart; Humans; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic resonance imaging; biomagnetism; cardiac conductivity; inverse problem; magnetocardiography; signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1987-5
DOI :
10.1109/iCBEB.2012.385