Japanese journal of medical electronics and biological engineering
Online ISSN : 2185-5498
Print ISSN : 0021-3292
ISSN-L : 0021-3292
Volume 37, Issue 4
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  • Akira UCHIDA, Takao AKATSUKA, Akio YAJIMA, Tohoru TAKEDA, Tsunehiro TA ...
    1999 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 319-324
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: October 14, 2011
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    Ischemic heart disease is closely related to stenosis on the coronary artery (CA), and the volume change of the left ventricle (LV) in a cardiac cycle is an important index for the evaluation of cardiac function. Coronary angiograms are usually used to identify stenotic position and its level, in clinical practice. However, a coronary angiogram also has information on heart motion in its time-series record. Usually, physicians only feel an abnormal motion from his empirical model and perform another inspection to confirm it. In this paper, we developed a method to estimate deformation and motion of the left ventricle by ellipsoidal fitting to three-dimensional shapes of the CA from time-series images of a biplanar CA angiogram. We had demonstrated this procedure against a clinical CA angiogram.
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  • Hideki SASAKI, Yasumitsu MIYAZAKI, Seiichi NISHIMURA
    1999 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 325-335
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: October 14, 2011
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    In the information transmission mechanism of excitable cells such as neurons and cardiac cells, electrophysiological phenomena play an important role. To analyze the action potential propagation, many numerical simulations have been reported for modeling excitable cells and tissues into a complex of conductive and dielectric media. In this paper, the numerical simulation of action potential propagation in a two-dimensional model of anisotropic cardiac muscle is presented. We considered the three types of the transmembrane ionic current. Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model, fast sodium current (FS) model and the Beeler-Reuter (BR) model. In the case of the BR model, intracellular calcium-ion density is also calculated, which is an important parameter for muscle contraction in cardiac tissue. For the two-dimensional model of cardiac tissue, we assumed that 1) muscle fibers are parallel to the x-direction and the conductivity differs in x- and y-direction, 2) the tissue is so thin that intra- and extracellular currents are parallel to the membrane surface while transmembrane current is normal to it, and 3) the extracellular-to-intracellular conductivity ratio is constant in both x and y directions. As a result, the propagation velocities in the x and y directions, vx and vy respectively, are found to be vx=43.9cm/sec and vy=31.3cm/sec in HH model, while vx=30.1cm/sec and vy=20.8cm/sec in BR model, which are in good agreement with experimental data. Total computation times for FS and BR models are found to be, respectively, 2 and 109 times longer than that for the HH model.
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  • Toshimasa YAMAZAKI, Ken-ichi KAMIJO, Akihisa KENMOCHI
    1999 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 336-341
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: October 14, 2011
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    This study describes a simplified confidence limit only for the radial distance of estimated multiple equivalentcurrent dipoles (ECDs), by which the localization accuracy is quantitatively evaluated. By applying multiple ECD localization to three kinds of actual visual event-related potentials (ERPs), this measure was compared with normalized root mean square (nRMS), and its dependence on dipole position and moment was investigated. The present results show that the confidence limit depends on the radial distance of the dipoles, that the confidence limit is a localization accuracy measure conceptually different from the nRMS and that larger dipole moment yields misleadingly higher accuracy, independently of the number of ECDs.
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  • 1999 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 343-346
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: October 14, 2011
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