Abstract
One cannot uniquely determine the bioelectric sources in the heart solely from the observed potentials on the body surface [1] without first postulating models of cardiac electric sources and of a volume conductor that characterizes the torso’s passive electric properties. With both models in place, one can solve the forward problem by computing the potential distribution on the body surface from the given sources [2], and the inverse problem [3] by estimating source-model parameters from the observed body-surface potentials (given the restrictions implied by the source model).The inverse problem can, therefore, be viewed as a parameter-estimation problem.
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van Oosterom, A., Huiskamp, G. (1996). Spatio-Temporal Constraints in Inverse Electrocardiography. In: Ghista, D.N. (eds) Biomedical and Life Physics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85017-1_19
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