Functioning and Challenges in Equality and Accessibility Among People with Short Stature.

Accessibility is not the same for all of us. This study concerns people with short stature, their functioning and challenges in equality and accessibility in our environment based on average measures.

Relation of magnetocardiographic arrhythmia risk parameters to delayed ventricular conduction in postinfarction ventricular tachycardia.

Time-domain late field and intra-QRS fragmentation parameters in magnetocardiography (MCG) identify patients prone to VT after myocardial infarction. This study investigated if they are related to slow ventricular conduction and affected by arrhythmia surgery. Twenty-two patients with old myocardial infarction undergoing map-guided subendocardial resection to treat sustained VT were included.

Current-density estimation of exercise-induced ischemia in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease.

Magnetocardiographic and body surface potential mapping data measured in 6 patients with multivessel coronary artery disease were used in equivalent current-density estimation (CDE). Patient-specific boundary-element torso models were acquired from magnetic resonance images. Positron emission tomography data registrated with anatomical magnetic resonance imaging data provided the gold standard.

The effect of geometric and topologic differences in boundary element models on magnetocardiographic localization accuracy.

This study was performed to evaluate the changes in magnetocardiographic (MCG) source localization results when the geometry and the topology of the volume conductor model were altered. Boundary element volume conductor models of three patients were first constructed. These so-called reference torso models were then manipulated to mimic various sources of error in the measurement and analysis procedures.

Bioelectromagnetic localization of a pacing catheter in the heart.

The accuracy of localizing source currents within the human heart by non-invasive magneto- and electrocardiographic methods was investigated in 10 patients. A non-magnetic stimulation catheter inside the heart served as a reference current source. Biplane fluoroscopic imaging with lead ball markers was used to record the catheter position.