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Advances in Body Surface Potential Mapping (BSPM) Instrumentation

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Pediatric and Fundamental Electrocardiography

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 56))

Abstract

Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a non-invasive technique providing a spatiotemporal representation of the electrical activity of the heart. As a result of the electrical activity of the heart, electrical potentials appear at all points of the body surface. The aim of the BSPM instrument is to provide a time-coherent recording of ECG’s from a relatively large number of electrodes placed on the body surface. The recorded data are displayed in a graphical form for clinical analysis to diagnose cardiac abnormalities. In addition, the availability of the potential distribution over the complete torso permits, in principle, the non-invasive reconstruction of epicardial potentials from the BSPM data.

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  1. Madhav S. Kavuru
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, 2101 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Jerome Liebman M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  2. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27706, USA

    Robert Plonsey Ph.D. (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology) (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physiology)

  3. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Yoram Rudy Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering) (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering)

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Kavuru, M.S., Vesselle, H., Thomas, C.W. (1987). Advances in Body Surface Potential Mapping (BSPM) Instrumentation. In: Liebman, J., Plonsey, R., Rudy, Y. (eds) Pediatric and Fundamental Electrocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2323-5_15

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