Computational and numerical methods for bioelectric field problems

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-81

  Johnson, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric fields; Computation; Modeling; Numerical techniques; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIOELECTRIC FIELDS; BIOPHYSICAL SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW;

EID: 0030927952     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v25.i1.10     Document Type: Review

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