A comparison of higher-order generalized eigensystem techniques and tikhonov regularization for the inverse problem of electrocardiographyFootnote^*

^*This work was supported in part by NSF grant numbers BES-9410385 and BES-9622158, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications under grant BCS930005N. It utilized the Power Challenge Array at NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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