BACKGROUND Although high defibrillation threshold (DFT) is a major and unavoidable clinical problem after implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), little is known about the cause and management of a high DFT in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The purpose of this study was to assess the predictors of a high DFT in patients with HCM. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

BACKGROUND Defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing at the time of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) insertion is performed routinely. This practice is being reconsidered due to doubts about its ability to improve ICD efficacy and evidence that survival may not be affected by the test. OBJECTIVES To compare the outcome of ICD recipients who underwent DFT testing and those who did not...

This paper proposes a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) test strategy based on a non-scan DFT method. Especially, we evaluate a basic DFT method, called NS-DFT, comparing with a full scan DFT method. The experimental results for practical circuits and benchmark circuits demonstrate the efficiency of the NS-DFT.

BACKGROUND Inability to perform defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing during implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation due to co-morbidities may influence long-term survival. METHODS Retrospective review at The University of Michigan (1999-2004) identified 55 patients undergoing ICD implantation without DFT testing ("No-DFT group"). A randomly selected sample of patients (n =...

This paper is concerned with the definition of the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFRFT). First, an eigendecomposition of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix is derived by sampling the Hermite Gauss functions which are eigenfunctions of the continuous Fourier transform and by performing a novel error removal procedure. Then, the result of the eigendecomposition of the DFT matrix...

The purpose of this work is to survey what is known about the linear independence of spikes and sines. The paper provides new results for the case where the locations of the spikes and the frequencies of the sines are chosen at random. This problem is equivalent to studying the spectral norm of a random submatrix drawn from the discrete Fourier transform matrix. The proof depends on an extrapol...

The standard method for spectrum analysis in digital signal processing (DSP) is the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), typically implemented using a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. However, there are applications that require spectrum analysis only over a subset of the N center frequencies of an N-point DFT. A popular, as well as efficient, technique for computing sparse DFT results is t...

Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is probably the most popular signal processing tool. Wide DFT use is partly dedicated to fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms (Cooley & Tukey, 1965, Oppenheim et al., 1999, Lyons, 2004). DFT may also be efficiently computed by recursive algorithms in the window sliding by one sample (Jacobsen & Lyons, 2003, Duda, 2010). Unfortunately, DFT has two main drawbac...

Electronic structure calculations are now indispensible for understanding chemical phenomena. Density functional theory (DFT), which is simple, conceptual, and applicable to large systems, has emerged as a powerful computational tool to tackle molecular electronic structures. DFT efficiently calculates electronic structure with high accuracy, and its algorithm is suitable for parallel computing...

BACKGROUND An increased defibrillation threshold (DFT) may limit the efficacy of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in termination of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. A search for methods of decreasing DFT has been ongoing since the introduction of ICD into clinical practice. AIM To assess the effects of various shock polarities on DFT. METHODS The study group consiste...