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The Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography

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Comprehensive Electrocardiology

1 9.1 Introduction

In very broad terms, the inverse problem of electrocardiography may be defined as the determination of the electrical function of the heart from a number of remote recordings of potentials on some noninvasive or minimally invasive surface. In this sense, even clinical electrocardiographic or vectorcardiographic diagnosis is an inverse problem solved on an empirical basis by using previously cataloged information. In this chapter, the phrase “inverse problem of electrocardiography” is used in its more formal sense to mean the deduction of electrical information about the heart by mathematical manipulation of the measured potentials on the body surface (or from inside the cavities of the heart). The description of this inverse problem and various forms of its solution forms the principal subject matter of this chapter. We consider the clinical interpretation of the calculated electrical information only briefly, since clinical deduction may be viewed as subsequent to...

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Pullan, A.J., Cheng, L.K., Nash, M.P., Ghodrati, A., MacLeod, R., Brooks, D.H. (2010). The Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography. In: Macfarlane, P.W., van Oosterom, A., Pahlm, O., Kligfield, P., Janse, M., Camm, J. (eds) Comprehensive Electrocardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-046-3_9

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