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Engineering Concepts of Pacemaker Electrodes

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Engineering in Medicine

Abstract

The whole stimulation system consists of three parts:

  • the pulse generator,

  • the myocardium and

  • the electrodes.

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  1. Zentralinstitut für Biomedizinische Technik der Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen/Nürnberg, 852, Erlangen, Germany, Turnstr. 5

    Max Schaldach (Prof. Dr.) (Prof. Dr.)

  2. Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, N.Y., 10467, USA

    Seymour Furman M.D.

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Irnich, W. (1975). Engineering Concepts of Pacemaker Electrodes. In: Schaldach, M., Furman, S. (eds) Engineering in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66187-7_15

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