) [6] using approximately 1 / 10th the energy [3] of current shock protocols when low-energy pulses are used. The exact nature of the fine-scale structural heterogeneity driving virtual-electrode formation during defibrillation…
mm and mm for the posterior leaflet, respectively. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this chapter (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20309-6_16) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Videos can also…
(1) where represents the initial stimulus, and denotes the sum of all inward and outward currents, respectively, which are defined as (2) (3)where is the resting potential. This parameter was…
Fig. 1. Global scheme of fibre variability propagation along personalisation pipeline. 2 Personalisation of Cardiac Electromechanical Model 2.1 Robust Segmentation of Myocardium from MRI Patient-specific heart morphology is obtained from…
to one another) TEE image sequences through the cardiac cycle to validate the proposed tools and demonstrate their clinical utility and performance against commercial, clinical-grade, clinician-operated software. The proposed methodology…
Fig. 1. (left) Typical short axis LGE-MR image where the different types of tissues can be seen within the endocardial (inner) and epicardial (outer) contours. (right) Polar deployment of the…
is the estimated mean of the elementary effects and estimates the overall effect of the factor on the output, and is the standard deviation of the elementary effects and estimates…
to simpler metrics that can be directly derived from imaging modalities such as 3D echo (wall thickness and cavity volume) or cine MRI (apicobasal distance). The evaluated geometry based CFs…
; matrix size, ; FOV, mm; slice thickness, 8 mm. Retrospective ECG gating was used with 25 phases per section. We then segmented the two ventricles in the end-diastolic images using…
, where we define a transverse isotropic diffusion tensor model of the form: (1) (2)for all , with the helix angle of the fiber and the local circumferential and long-axial…
