Influence of individual torso geometry on inverse solution to 2 dipoles

Jana Svehlikova1, Jana Lenkova, Marie Turzova

  • 1Institute of Measurement Science SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia. jana.svehlikova@savba.sk

Journal of Electrocardiology
|September 13, 2011
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