ArticleComputing in cardiology2020
Effect of Myocardial Fiber Direction on Epicardial Activation Patterns.
Article in Computing in cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Abstract
Fiber structure governs the spread of excitation in the heart, however, little is known about the effects of physiological variability in the fiber orientation on epicardial activation. To investigate these effects, we used computer simulation to compare ventricular activation sequences initiated from stimulus sites at regularly spaced depths within the myocardium under varying rule-based fiber ranges. We compared the effects using four characteristics of epicardial breakthrough (BKT): location, area, shape (calculated via the axis ratio of a fitted ellipse), and orientation. Our results showed changes in the BKT characteristics as pacing depth increased, e.g., the area increased, the shape became more circular, and the orientation rotated counterclockwise, regardless of the fiber orientation. Furthermore, the maximal differences in epicardial activation from a single pacing site for location, area, axis ratio, and orientation were 1.2 mm, 74 mm
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