Paper Info
Title
Supression Of The Cardiac Electric Field Artifact From The Heart Action Evoked Potential
Abstract
The study of heart action-related brain potentials is strongly disrupted by the presence of an inherent cardiac electric artifact. The hypothesis is presented that most of the electric current coupled to the cardiac field surrounds the skull and flows through the scalp tissue without crossing the cranial cavity. This pseudo two-dimensional conduction model contrasts with the volumetric conduction of the brain electrical activity, and this property is exploited to cancel the cardiac electric artifact. QRS loop vectorcardiographic projections on saggital planes were recorded in 11 healthy subjects in the head and neck areas. Comparative analysis of the projection eccentricities, estimated by the correlation coefficients of the paired data on each area, supported the hypothesis and allowed the handling of the cardiac electric field at the scalp as if enclosed in a two-dimensional wrapped space. This approach permitted the combination of different heart action-related brain potentials recorded at different electrode positions to cancel the cardiac electric artifact. The cancellation method, applied to the subjects' EEG data, yielded a slow cortical potential with a negligible cardiac electric residue and an amplitude of about 1.5-2 mu V, with a maximum around 150 ms and a minimum at 400 ms post-R wave.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/BF02351030
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
heartbeat evoked potential, cardiac field artifact, surface laplacian, skull electrical conductivity, skull shielding effect
Biomedical engineering,Electric field,Cranial cavity,Evoked potential,QRS complex,Scalp,Eeg data,Amplitude,Mathematics,Electric current
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
5
0140-0118
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J J Pérez110.40
E Guijarro210.40
J A Barcia310.40