The Construction of a Volumetric Cardiac Model for Real-time ECG Simulation

We present a novel approach for producing a real-time simulation of the 3D phenomenon of the electrocardiogram. Techniques are borrowed from the fields of computer vision and computer graphics to create a volumetric heart model that can be fine-tuned to illustrate a variety of electrophysiological situations. The activation sequence that occurs in the heart model is choreographed to coincide with the progression of a recorded ECG. Keywords ECG, ECG simulation, cardiac modeling, volumization, texture mapping

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WSCG
• Authors: Robert Mooney, Carol O'Sullivan, John Ryan, Christopher Bell
• Keywords: ECG Simulation, Heart Model, Volumetric Heart Model, WSCG 2003