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QRS Amplitude and Shape Variability in Magnetocardiograms
Author(s) -
HUCK MARKUS,
HAUEISEN JENS,
HOENECKE OLAF,
FRITSCHI TORSTEN,
LEDER UWE,
NOWAK HANNES
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00805.x
Subject(s) - medicine , qrs complex , amplitude , cardiology , optics , physics
In magnetocardiography, averaging of QRS complexes is often used to improve the signal‐to‐noise ratio. However, averaging of QRS complexes ignores the variation in amplitude and shape of the signals caused, for example, by respiration. This may lead to suppression of signal portions within the QRS complexes. Furthermore, for inverse source, reconstructions of dipoles and of current density distributions errors in the special arrangement may occur. To overcome these problems we developed a method for separating and selective averaging QRS complexes with different shapes and amplitudes. The method is based on a spline interpolation of the QRS complex averaged by a standard procedure. This spline function then is fitted to each QRS complex in the raw data by means of nonlinear regression (Levenberg‐Marquardt method). Five regression parameters are applied: a linear amplitude scaling, two parameters describing the baseline drift, a time scaling parameter, and a time shift parameter. We found that both amplitude and shape of the QRS complex are influenced by respiration. The baseline shows a weaker influence of the respiration. The regression parameters of two neighboring measurement channels correlate linearly. Thus, selective averaging of a larger number of sensors can be performed simultaneously.

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