Title
Which Bidomain Conductivity Is The Most Important For Modelling Heart And Torso Surface Potentials During Ischaemia?
Abstract
Mathematical simulations using the bidomain model, which represents cardiac tissue as consisting of an intracellular and an extracellular space, are a key approach that can be used to improve understanding of heart conditions such as ischaemia. However, key inputs to these models, such as the bidomain conductivity values, are not known with any certainty. Since efforts are underway to measure these values, it would be useful to be able to quantify the effect on model outputs of uncertainty in these inputs, and also to determine, if possible, which are the most important values to focus on in experimental studies. Our previous work has systematically studied the sensitivity of heart surface potentials to the bidomain conductivity values, and this was performed using a half-ellipsoidal model of the left ventricle. This study uses a bi-ventricular heart in a torso model and this time looks at the sensitivity of the torso surface potentials, as well as the heart surface potentials, to various conductivity values (blood, torso and the six bidomain conductivities). We found that both epicardial and torso potentials are the most sensitive to the intracellular longitudinal (along the cardiac fibres) conductivity (gil) with more minor sensitivity to the torso conductivity, and that changes in gil have a significant effect on the surface potential distributions on both the torso and the heart.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104830
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Partial thickness ischaemia, Torso surface potentials, Epicardial potentials, Polynomial chaos, Sensitivity analysis, Bidomain model
Journal
137
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0010-4825
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara M. Johnston1258.44
Peter R. Johnston28015.20