Origins of Spiral Wave Meander and Breakup in a Two-Dimensional Cardiac Tissue Model

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 755-771

  Qu, Zhilin ^a,b   Xie, Fagen ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Weiss, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Electrophysiology; Reentry; Restitution; Simulation; Stability

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL JUNCTION; DIASTOLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; DIASTOLE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERIODICITY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0034230788     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1289474     Document Type: Article

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