Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2011 Oct;58(10):2952-5. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2161305. Epub 2011 Jul 7.
Atrial arrhythmias resulting from abnormally rapid focal activity in the atria may be reflected in an altered P-wave morphology (PWM) in the ECG. Although clinically important, detailed relationships between PWM and origins of atrial focal excitations have not been established. To study such relationships, we developed computational models of the human atria and torso. The model simulation results were used to evaluate an extant clinical algorithm for locating the origin of atrial focal points from the ECG. The simulations showed that the algorithm was practical and could predict the atrial focal locations with 85% accuracy. We proposed a further refinement of the algorithm to distinguish between focal locations within the large atrial bundles.
心房内异常快速灶性活动引起的房性心律失常可能反映在心电图中的 P 波形态改变(PWM)中。尽管在临床上很重要,但 PWM 与心房灶性兴奋起源之间的详细关系尚未建立。为了研究这种关系,我们开发了人类心房和躯干的计算模型。使用模型模拟结果来评估一种现有的临床算法,用于从心电图定位心房灶点的起源。模拟结果表明,该算法具有实用性,可以以 85%的准确率预测心房灶点的位置。我们提出了对算法的进一步改进,以区分大心房束内的灶点位置。