1 31.1 Introduction – History and Technology
Body surface potential mapping is an extension of conventional electrocardiography that acknowledges the fact that cardiac electrical fields – the voltage distributions and current flow patterns arising from cardiac currents – exist everywhere within and on the body surface. Waller, Einthoven, Wilson, and many of the early electrocardiographers recognized that the electrocardiogram could be measured from any body surface site and that the measured signals were different at each site, but because of limitations in recording technology, they could measure only one or at best a few sites at a time. The evolution of electronic amplifiers and the advent and access of laboratory computers during the late 1960s made possible the recording of many ECGs at a time, thus allowing the mapping of spatial distributions of potential. The sequence of these distributions defines what has come to be known as the body surface potential map. Unlike scalar...
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Lux, R.L. (2010). Body Surface Potential Mapping Techniques. In: Macfarlane, P.W., van Oosterom, A., Pahlm, O., Kligfield, P., Janse, M., Camm, J. (eds) Comprehensive Electrocardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-046-3_31
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