Electrocardiographic Body Surface Mapping: Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Body Surface Mapping

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Present and Future of Body Surface Electrocardiographic Mapping....Pages 3-8
Features of Body Surface Potential Maps from A Large Normal Population....Pages 9-18
Evolution of Body Surface Potentials in the Healthy Newborn During the First Week of Life....Pages 19-24
Recognition of Epicardial Breakthrough by Body Surface Isopotential Mapping....Pages 25-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Isopotential Mapping in Acute Myocardial Infarction....Pages 31-38
Body Surface Isopotential Maps in Old Anterior Myocardial Infarction Undetectable by 12 Lead Electrocardiograms....Pages 39-48
Body Surface Map Criteria for Quantitating Infarct as Derived from Computer Simulations....Pages 49-61
Body Surface Mapping: Contribution and Limits for the Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Posterior, Inferior or Deep Septal Left Ventricular Myocardial Infarction....Pages 63-67
The Diagnostic Performances of Visual Examination of BSM and of ECG/VCG in the Identification of Chronically Infarcted Left Ventricular Segments....Pages 69-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Body Surface Potential Mapping in Conduction Abnormalities....Pages 77-90
Validation (Test Set) of a Method for Detecting Associated Heart Conditions in LBBB by Means of BSM....Pages 91-94
Localization of Pre-Excitation Sites in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome by Body Surface Potential Mapping and a Single Moving Dipole Representation....Pages 95-98
Comparison of Body Surface Mapping and Phase Display Methods to Localize Bypass Pathways in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome....Pages 99-104
Body Surface Map and Location of Origin of Ventricular Tachycardia. Comparison with Epicardial Map....Pages 105-108
Localization of Cardiac Electrical Activity by a Single Moving Dipole for Ventricular Tachycardia in Dog: Validation by Epicardial Activation Mapping....Pages 109-112
Isointegral Analysis of Body Surface Maps of Ventricular Premature Beats....Pages 113-123
Chest Mapping in the Evaluation of Pseudoischemic T Waves Related to Intermittent Left Bundle Branch Block....Pages 125-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Continuous Digital Recording of 240 ECG Leads for Body Surface Potential Mapping....Pages 133-144
Grid Of Electrodes Used at the Institute of General Physiology, Parma, Italy....Pages 145-145
Towards a Common Data-Format in Cardiac Potential Mapping....Pages 147-156
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Proposal for “Standardization of the Body Surface Potential Mapping System”....Pages 157-162
Data Representation Problems of Body Surface Potential Mapping....Pages 163-170
The Display of Body Surface Maps....Pages 171-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Use of Orthogonal Expansions for Representing Body Surface Potential Maps....Pages 179-184
Multivariate Analysis of Body Surface Potential Maps for the Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Before and After Temporal and Spatial Data Reduction....Pages 185-196
Orthogonal Expansion of Epicardial and Body Surface ECG Potentials....Pages 197-201
Usefulness of Time-Integral Analysis of Body Surface Potential Maps....Pages 203-207
Do Body Surface Maps Contain more Information than the ECG?....Pages 209-214
Representation of Electrocardiographic Body Surface Maps by Cylindrical Regression Coefficients....Pages 215-219
Automated Quantitative Vectorcardiography: The Louvain VCG-Computer Program....Pages 221-224
Quantitative Vectorcardiography. A Spatial Approach as the Basis of a New Diagnostic Logic....Pages 225-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Forward Problem Simulations of the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome with a Multiple-Dipole Heart Model....Pages 235-245
The Relationship Between Body Surface and Epicardial Potentials: A Theoretical Model Study....Pages 247-258
Accuracy of Epicardial Potentials Inversely Reconstructed from Body Surface Measurements....Pages 259-265
Comparison of Several Solutions of the Forward Potential Problem for a Finite Conducting Cylinder....Pages 267-271
3-Dimensional Propagation Model for Simulation of the Ventricular Depolarization and Repolarization Processes and Induced Body Surface Potentials....Pages 273-282
Moving Dipole Analysis in Normal and Myocardial Infarction....Pages 283-288
Discussion....Pages 289-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-311