A Simple Two-variable Model of Cardiac Excitation

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-301

  Aliev, Rubin R ^a,b   Panfilov, Alexander V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000157466     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0960-0779(95)00089-5     Document Type: Article

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