Three-dimensional finite-difference bidomain modeling of homogeneous cardiac tissue on a data-parallel computer

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 200-204

  Saleheen, Hasan I ^a   Claessen, Paul D ^b   Ng, Kwong T ^c  

^a Mfg Technologies Directorate   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidomain; biological tissues; biomedcal computing; connection machine; data parallel algorithm; finite difference methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER MODEL; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0031027514     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.552249     Document Type: Article

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