Spatial and temporal organization during cardiac fibrillation

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6671, 1998, Pages 75-78

  Gray, Richard A ^a,b   Pertsov, Arkady M ^a   Jalife, José ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEEP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RABBITS; SHEEP; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032485375     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32164     Document Type: Article

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