DocumentCode :
385473
Title :
System and methods for electrical-anatomical imaging of the heart
Author :
Rao, Liyun ; Khoury, Dim S.
Author_Institution :
Center for Exp. Cardiac Electrophysiology, Baylor Coll. of Med., Houston, TX, USA
Volume :
2
fYear :
2002
fDate :
2002
Firstpage :
1385
Abstract :
Noncontact, multielectrode catheter mapping derives single-beat endocardial activation, while intracardiac echocardiography constructs detailed three-dimensional endocardial anatomy. The study tested the feasibility of integrating both modalities in a single system that enabled beat-by-beat electrical-anatomical imaging. It was found that integrating intracardiac echocardiography with noncontact mapping was feasible and provided detailed, single-beat, three-dimensional electrical-anatomical images that could facilitate diagnosis of arrhythmias and advance their therapy.
Keywords :
biomedical electrodes; catheters; electrocardiography; inverse problems; medical signal processing; signal reconstruction; arrhythmias; beat-by-beat electrical-anatomical imaging; electrical-anatomical imaging; heart; intracardiac echocardiography; inverse problem; modality integration; noncontact mapping; noncontact multielectrode catheter mapping; single system; single-beat endocardial activation; therapy; three-dimensional endocardial anatomy; Anatomy; Cardiography; Catheters; Echocardiography; Electrodes; Heart; Ice; Medical treatment; Probes; Ultrasonic imaging;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
ISSN :
1094-687X
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106442
Filename :
1106442
Link To Document :
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