Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Contributors

ix

 

Preface to the Fourth Edition

xv

 

Preface to the First Edition

xvi

 

Foreword

xvii

 

European Perspective

xviii

 

Acknowledgements

xix

PART I

METHODOLOGICAL AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

 

1

Evolution of Cardiac Mapping: From Direct Analog to Digital Multi-Dimensional Recording   Jacques M. T. de Bakker and Marc A. Vos

3

2

Image Acquisition and Processing in New Technologies   Clinton Schneider and Srijoy Mahapatra

12

3

Microelectrode Arrays in Cardiac Mapping   Thomas Meyer, Elke Guenther and Udo Kraushaar

18

4

Cardiac Morphology Relevant to Mapping   Siew Yen Ho, Jose Angel Cabrera and Damian Sanchez-Quintana

28

5

Comparison of Mapping Technologies for Cardiac Electrophysiology   Ross J. Hunter and Richard J. Schilling

36

6

Interpretation of Electrograms and Complex Maps of Different Mapping Technologies   Kyoko Soejima and Seiji Fukamizu

46

7

Cardiac Mapping: Approach and Troubleshooting for the Electrophysiologist   Matthew J. Swale and Samuel J. Asirvatham

53

PART II

MAPPING IN EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS

 

8

Optical Mapping: Its Impact on Understanding Arrhythmia Mechanisms   Jan N.emec, Jong Kim and Guy Salama

71

9

Optical Mapping of the Sinoatrial Node and Atrioventricular Node   Ajit H. Janardhan, Di Lang and Igor R. Efimov

79

10

Panoramic Optical Imaging of Cardiac Arrhythmias   Crystal M. Ripplinger

90

11

Optical Imaging of Arrhythmias in Cardiomyocyte Monolayer Culture   Herman D. Himel IV, Gil Bub and Nabil El-Sherif

98

12

Mapping of Rotors in Atrial Fibrillation: From Animal Models to Humans   Omer Berenfeld, David Filgueiras-Rama and Felipe Atienza

108

13

Multiple Mechanisms Causing Ventricular Tachycardia   Andrew L. Wit and Mark E. Josephson

119

14

Modeling of Atrial Fibrillation   Nathalie Virag, Vincent Jacquemet and Lukas Kappenberger

131

15

Modeling of Ventricular Arrhythmias   Natalia A. Trayanova

140

16

Personalized Electrophysiological Modeling of the Human Atrium   Olaf Doessel, Martin Kruger and Gunnar Seemann

150

17

Mapping of the Atrial Neural Network: Autonomic Mechanisms Underlying Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms and the Substrate for Atrial Fibrillation   Youqi Fan, Benjamin J. Scherlag , Yu Liu, Heng Cai, Lilei Yu, Eric Hepler, Shailesh Male, Warren M. Jackman and Sunny S. Po

159

18

Mapping of Atrial Repolarization Changes and Tachyarrhythmia Sites of Origin During Activation of Mediastinal Nerve Inputs to the Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System   Rene Cardinal and Pierre Page

172