Abstract
Known and measured cardiac and torso anatomy, electrophysiology, and resistivities have been incorporated into a three-dimensional propagation model of ventricular excitation [1]. This model includes all the first-order effects known to influence the ECG in man. It has been used to generate QRS criteria for the 12-lead ECG in order to locate infarcts in 12 segments of the left ventricle and to predict the amount of infarct in each segment [2, 3]. The ability of these criteria to predict the size of infarct in each of the three main coronary artery distributions is the subject of this chapter.
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Selvester, R.H., Sanmarco, M.E., Solomon, J.C., Wagner, G.S. (1982). The ECG: QRS Change. In: Wagner, G.S. (eds) Myocardial Infarction. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7452-4_2
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