APPLICATION OF THE SURFACE HARMONIC EXPANSIONS FOR MODELING THE HUMANTORSO

Authors
HREN R STROINK G
Citation
R. Hren et G. Stroink, APPLICATION OF THE SURFACE HARMONIC EXPANSIONS FOR MODELING THE HUMANTORSO, IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, 42(5), 1995, pp. 521-524
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Biomedical
Journal title
IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189294
Volume
42
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
521 - 524
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9294(1995)42:5<521:AOTSHE>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
A method is described to represent the human-torso geometry, as obtain ed from, e.g., MR imaging, in terms of the surface harmonic expansion. Three sperific torso geometries, two male and one female, were recons tructed with the root-mean-square (rms) error < 5 mm using 168 and 248 parameters, respectively. The method can be used in radiation therapy and enhances the accuracy of forward and inverse modeling in electroc ardiology.