NDLI: Relating spatial heterogeneities to rotor formation in studying human ventricular fibrillation

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Author	Jeyaratnam, J. Umapathy, K. Masse, S. Nair, K. Farid, T. Krishnan, S. Nanthakumar, K.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (Jeyaratnam, J.; Umapathy, K.; Krishnan, S.) \|\| Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada (Masse, S.; Nair, K.; Farid, T.; Nanthakumar, K.)
Abstract	Ventricular fibrillation (VF) occurs due to disorganized electrical activity in the ventricles. This leads to rapid uncoordinated contractions of the ventricles and sudden cardiac death if not treated within minutes of its occurrence. The mechanism of VF initiation and maintenance is still elusive, however the mother rotor and multiple wavelet theories attempt to explain the mechanism behind this lethal arrhythmia. In mother rotor theory, VF is believed to be maintained by high frequency periodic sources called rotors that could be tracked using the phase progression along and through the myocardium using spatio-temporal electrical mapping of the heart. There are exiting works including our previous works that have related the formation of these rotors to anatomical and physiological heterogeneities observed in the myocardium. In this study we performed an correlation exercise of the locations of rotors with scar boundary maps and dominant frequency maps and elucidated this relation using human VF data acquired from isolated human hearts. The results suggest that in 14 rotors over 6 human hearts that we studied, all rotors co-localized to boundary zones of scar and low-high dominant frequency locations. The mean variance of the dominant frequency over the spatial location of the rotor was found to be 0.55 with average minimum of 4.15 Hz to a maximum of 5.71 Hz. This results in human VF data strongly suggest that boundary zones of healthy-non-healthy tissues and low-high frequency boundaries form a favorite substrate for rotor formation.
Starting Page	231
Ending Page	234
File Size	351284
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424441211
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781457715891
e-ISBN	9781424441228
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090043
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Rotors Heart Electrodes Humans Frequency measurement Physiology Image color analysis Phase Maps Ventricular Fibrillation Dominant Frequency Scar Maps
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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