What exactly are optically recorded 'action potentials'?

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1463-1466

  Gray, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032706547     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1999.tb00205.x     Document Type: Editorial

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