Solidifying the solid angle.
This paper evaluates the position of the solid angle in its application to modeling in electrocardiology. Particular attention is paid to the use of the solid angle for linking cardiac electric activity to the potentials observed on the body surface. In this application, the solid angle is a dominant factor in the expression of the sources during depolarization known as the uniform double layer. In the related equivalent double layer model, the contributions of the elementary sources are also expressed in terms of solid angles, their strength not being uniform. A recently developed theory allows the equivalent double layer to be applied to both depolarization and repolarization.
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Department of Medical Physics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. avo@mbfys.kun.nl
D018780:Body Surface Potential Mapping / Q000379:methods; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac; D008962:Models, Theoretical