A new three-dimensional finite-difference bidomain formulation for inhomogeneous anisotropie cardiac tissues

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-25

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

^a Sustainability and Process Engineering Directorate   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic; Bidomain modeling; Connection machine; Data parallel algorithm; Fiber rotation; Finite difference; Inhomogeneous

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CALCULATIONS; CARDIOLOGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

BIDOMAIN MODELING; CARDIAC TISSUES; FIBER ROTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; ROTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEURAL CONDUCTION; ROTATION;

EID: 0031962535     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.650347     Document Type: Article

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