INTRODUCTION Multiple forms of ventricular tachycardia (VT) after myocardial infarction may result from multiple reentrant circuits that share an isthmus or from separate reentrant circuits. The prevalence of a shared isthmus in patients with multiple hemodynamically tolerated VTs has not been determined. METHODS AND RESULTS Criteria for a shared isthmus consisted of (1) concealed entrainment...

Abstract—Passive millimeter (MMW) imaging can penetrate clothing to create interpretable imagery of concealed objects. However, the image quality is often restricted by low signal to noise ratio and temperature contrast as well as low spatial resolution. In this paper, we explore a four-channel passive MMW imaging system operating in the 8 and 3 mm wavelength regimes with linear vertical and ho...

Long electrocardiographic strips were analyzed from five patients who exhibited periods of typical "concealed bigeminy," i. e., recurrent unifocal extrasystoles which were separated from one another by odd numbers of normally conducted sinus beats. However, in each of these patients, there were periods in which one of three different variants of concealed bigeminy was observed. Three patients...

The mechanism of the AV nodal Wenckebach phenomenon was studied in 25 dogs by multiple atrial and His bundle electrogram (HBE) recordings. During ventricular stimulation with 1:1 retrograde conduction, the interval from the stimulus artifact to the retrograde His deflection (S-H interval) remained constant. Decreasing the cycle length of stimulation (CLS) resulted in retrograde AV nodal Wenckeb...

Side scan sonar in low-cost 'fishfinder' systems has become popular in aquatic ecology and sedimentology for imaging submerged riverbed sediment at coverages and resolutions sufficient to relate bed texture to grain-size. Traditional methods to map bed texture (i.e. physical samples) are relatively high-cost and low spatial coverage compared to sonar, which can continuously image several kilome...

CONCEALED CONDUCTION in the atrioventricular (AV) junction in association with coordinated atrial activity is a well-recognized phenomenon,1-3 recently confirmed with new technics in animal experiments.4-6 Its operation in atrial fibrillation has received less attention, although it appears to offer the best explanation for the characteristic irregularity of the ventricular responses.7 11 It is...

CONCEALED CONDUCTION in the atrioventricular (AV) junction in association with coordinated atrial activity is a well-recognized phenomenon,1-3 recently confirmed with new technics in animal experiments.4-6 Its operation in atrial fibrillation has received less attention, although it appears to offer the best explanation for the characteristic irregularity of the ventricular responses.7 11 It is...

Many conventional techniques for revealing concealed information have focused on detecting whether a person is responding truthfully to specific questions, typically using some form of lie detector. However, lie detection has faced a number of criticisms and it is still unclear to what degree conventional lie detectors can be used to reveal concealed knowledge in applied real-world settings. He...