A Geometrical Model of Successive Stages in Excitation of the Human Heart; its Value as a Link between Excitation and Clinical Vectorcardiography

Abstract

A geometrical model of successive stages of cardiac excitation in man, based on the anatomy of a normal heart and on certain simplifying assumptions, was devised. Its value for a better understanding of the spread of excitation and the relation of the latter to the shape of the QRS loop in the vectorcardiogram is discussed.