Abstract: The invention relates to medicine, namely to cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, functional diagnosis and clinical electrophysiology of the heart. The invention consists in reconstructing electrograms, whose experimental registration requires an invasive access, by computational way on unipolar ECGs recorded at 80 and more points of the chest surface. An application of the method allows one to improve the accuracy of non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac rhythm disturbances and other cardio-vascular diseases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 23, 2009
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2014
Assignee:
“AMYCARD” LLC
Inventors:
Amiran Shotaevich Revishvili, Vitaliy Viktorovich Kalinin, Alexander Viktorovich Kalinin
Abstract: Reconstructing electrograms, whose experimental registration requires an invasive access, by computational way on unipolar ECGs recorded at 80 and more points of the chest surface. On the set of surface electrocardiograms for each discrete moment of the cardiocycle, values of the heart electric field potential at points of ECG-recording are determined, and a value of the electric field potential at each point of the chest surface is calculated by interpolation. Based on data of any visualization methodology, boundaries of chest and lungs surfaces and of the heart epicardial surface are determined. Further, a continuation of the electric field potential over the whole chest surface up to the heart epicardial surface with taking into account differences in electroconductivity of large anatomical structures of the chest is performed by computational way based on solution of the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation in a piecewise-homogenous medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 24, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 10, 2013
Assignee:
“Amycard” LLC
Inventors:
Amiran Shotaevich Revishvili, Vitaliy Viktorovich Kalinin, Alexander Viktorovich Kalinin
Abstract: The invention relates to medicine, namely to cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, functional diagnosis and clinical electrophysiology of the heart. The invention consists in reconstructing electrograms, whose experimental registration requires an invasive access, by computational way on unipolar ECGs recorded at 80 and more points of the chest surface. Based on reconstructed electrograms, isopotential, isochronous maps on realistic models of the heart are constructed, the dynamics of the myocardium excitation is reconstructed and electrophysiological processes in the cardiac muscle are diagnosed. Application of the method allows one to improve the accuracy of non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac rhythm disturbances and other cardio-vascular diseases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 23, 2009
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2013
Assignee:
“Amycard” LLC
Inventors:
Amiran Shotaevich Revishvili, Vitaliy Viktorovich Kalinin, Alexander Viktorovich Kalinin