Cardiac Voltage Analysis Software for Interpretation of Transmembrane Voltage Movies Obtained via the Langendorff Perfusion Setup
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Cardiac Voltage Analysis Software for Interpretation of Transmembrane Voltage Movies Obtained via the Langendorff Perfusion Setup
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2021
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Using the Langendorff perfusion setup to study and compare healthy and arrhythmic
heart conditions is an increasingly common practice. This technique requires the ex-vivo
perfusion of the heart, wherein cardiac tissue is injected with a voltage sensitive fluorescent dye,
allowing for video analysis of electrical activity in the heart under normal and arrhythmic
conditions. When conducted in this study, this technique resulted in recorded movies of cardiac
tissue interpretable as 3D matrices whereby the spatial dimensions are defined by the movie
resolution of 80 by 80 pixels, and the temporal dimension is based on the length of the movie in
frames.
The goal of this project was to further develop and investigate the efficiency of a data
analysis application, CVAS (Cardiac Voltage Analysis Software), which is capable of analyzing
these matrices in a user-friendly, intuitive way. This MATLAB based software is designed to be
capable of creating highly modular plots, calculations, and optical maps for analysis on both
paced and arrhythmic data. This task is one that would heavily benefit contemporary
electrophysiological cardiology, and provide easy assessment of electrophysiological properties
of the heart during normal and abnormal cardiac rhythms.
By collecting new data for this software to analyze, CVAS was critiqued and improved to
optimize its ease of use and interaction with researchers. Additionally, its ability to generate high
quality and immediately presentable optical maps, plots, and calculations for both paced and
arrhythmic data was strengthened. CVAS’s current capabilities include loading in and masking
optical movie data sets, visualizing the electrical activity of the heart with fluorescence movies
and action potential traces, and allowing for visualization and analysis of both paced and
arrhythmic data sets through the use of action potential duration, activation time, conduction
velocity, dominant frequency, and multiscale frequency maps.
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Faculty advisor: Alena Talkachova
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This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
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Callaway, Trenton; Talkachova, Alena; Ravikumar, Vasanth. (2021). Cardiac Voltage Analysis Software for Interpretation of Transmembrane Voltage Movies Obtained via the Langendorff Perfusion Setup. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219615.
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