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Wiley, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 12(30), p. 1558-1577, 2014

DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2689

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Computational generation of the Purkinje network driven by clinical measurements: The case of pathological propagations

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Abstract

To properly describe the electrical activity of the left ventricle it is necessary to model the Purkinje fibers, responsible for the fast and coordinate ventricular activation, and their interaction with the muscular propagation. The aim of this work is to propose a methodology for the generation of a patient-specific Purkinje network driven by clinical measurements of the activation times related to pathological propagations. In this case, one needs to consider a strongly coupled problem between the network and the muscle, where the feedback from the latter to the former cannot be neglected as in a normal propagation. We apply the proposed strategy to data acquired on three subjects, one of them suffering from muscular conduction problems due to a scar and the other two with a muscular pre-excitation syndrome (Wolff Parkinson White). To assess the accuracy of the proposed method, we compare the results obtained by using the patient-specific Purkinje network generated by our strategy with the ones obtained by using a non patient-specific network. The results show that the mean absolute errors in the activation time is reduced for all the cases, highlighting the importance of including a patient-specific Purkinje network in computational models. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.