Spirals, chaos, and new mechanisms of wave propagation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 II, 1997, Pages 414-421

  Chen, Peng Sheng ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^b   Weiss, James N ^b   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

chaos theory; oscillation; spiral waves; ventricular fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0031042420     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06200.x     Document Type: Article

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