New finite difference formulations for general inhomogeneous anisotropic bioelectric problems

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 800-809

  Saleheen, Hasan I ^a,b   Ng, Kwong T ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Concurrent Technologies Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic; Bioelectric; Connection machine; Data parallel algorithm; Finite difference; Inhomogeneous; Laplace's equation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC BIOELECTRIC PROBLEMS; DEFIBRILLATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DEFIBRILLATORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; MACHINE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOGS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031239006     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.623049     Document Type: Article

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