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Effect of conductivity interfaces in electrocardiography

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This paper develops numerical techniques for two problems of interest in electrocardiography: (1) the determination of infinite-media surface potential gradients from boundedmedia torso potentials, and (2) the effects of lung-torso, blood mass-torso, and torso-air conductivity interfaces on torso surface potentials. This paper is an extension of a previous paper on the effects of conductivity interfaces which also utilized an integral equation formulation of Laplace's equation.

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  1. C. L. Rogers

    Present address: Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

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  1. Division of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

    T. C. Pilkington, R. C. Barr & C. L. Rogers

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Supported in part by USPHS Grants HE 05716 and HE 11307 and American Heart Grant 67-850.

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Pilkington, T.C., Barr, R.C. & Rogers, C.L. Effect of conductivity interfaces in electrocardiography. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 30, 637–643 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476680

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