Journal
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 47, Issue 7, Pages 719-729Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0472-x
Keywords
Myocardial anisotropy; Boundary-element methods; Finite-difference model; Electrocardiogram; Computer model
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The boundary-element method (BEM) is widely used for electrocardiogram (ECG) simulation. Its major disadvantage is its perceived inability to deal with the anisotropic electric conductivity of the myocardial interstitium, which led researchers to represent only intracellular anisotropy or neglect anisotropy altogether. We computed ECGs with a BEM model based on dipole sources that accounted for a compound anisotropy ratio. The ECGs were compared with those computed by a finite-difference model, in which intracellular and interstitial anisotropy could be represented without compromise. For a given set of conductivities, we always found a compound anisotropy value that led to acceptable differences between BEM and finite-difference results. In contrast, a fully isotropic model produced unacceptably large differences. A model that accounted only for intracellular anisotropy showed intermediate performance. We conclude that using a compound anisotropy ratio allows BEM-based ECG models to more accurately represent both anisotropies.
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