Simulation study of a magnetocardiogram based on a virtual heart model:effect of a cardiac equivalent source and a volume conductor

作     者：寿国法 夏灵 马平 唐发宽 戴灵 

作者机构：Department of Biomedical EngineeringKey Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of the Ministry of EducationZhejiang University Department of PhysicsState Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic PhysicsPeking University Department of Cardiologythe 309th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army 

出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第20卷第3期

页      面：121-128页

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学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 08[工学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 

基　　金：supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant Nos. 2007CB512100 and2006CB601007) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10674006) the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA03Z238) China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 20090461376) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. KYJD09001) 

主　　题：virtual heart model magnetocardiogram dipole source equivalent double layer source volume conductor model 

摘      要：In this paper, we present a magnetocardiogram （MCG） simulation study using the boundary element method （BEM） and based on the virtual heart model and the realistic human volume conductor model. The different contributions of cardiac equivalent source models and volume conductor models to the MCG are deeply and comprehensively investigated. The single dipole source model, the multiple dipoles source model and the equivalent double layer （EDL） source model are analysed and compared with the cardiac equivalent source models. Meanwhile, the effect of the volume conductor model on the MCG combined with these cardiac equivalent sources is investigated. The simulation results demonstrate that the cardiac electrophysiological information will be partly missed when only the single dipole source is taken, while the EDL source is a good option for MCG simulation and the effect of the volume conductor is smallest for the EDL source. Therefore, the EDL source is suitable for the study of MCG forward and inverse problems, and more attention should be paid to it in future MCG studies.