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Present State of the Art of Body Surface Mapping

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 56))

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When one is considering the developments that have occurred during the last 5 to 10 years in the field of body surface mapping, the picture that presents itself—as continually happens in the field of medical and other sciences—is that of a rapidly expanding subspecialty in which new facts and horizons are being incorporated at a rapid rate into the existing conceptual framework of knowledge. The ultimate aim of that knowledge is an important contribution to the power of electrocardiographic methods, is now forthcoming, so it is likely that electrocardiography is on the verge of a new era.

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  1. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, 2101 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Jerome Liebman M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  2. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27706, USA

    Robert Plonsey Ph.D. (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology) (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology)

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    Yoram Rudy Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering) (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering)

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van Dam, R.T. (1987). Present State of the Art of Body Surface Mapping. In: Liebman, J., Plonsey, R., Rudy, Y. (eds) Pediatric and Fundamental Electrocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2323-5_17

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