Drifting vortices of electrical waves underlie ventricular fibrillation in the rabbit heart

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-132

  Jalife, J ^a,b   Gray, R ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmia; Doppler effect; ECG; Mathematical model; Optical mapping; Scroll wave; Spiral wave; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0029974363     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.1996.505249000.x     Document Type: Article

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