Numerical simulations of cardiac dynamics. What can we learn from simple and complex models?

Computers in Cardiology

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 251-254

  Fenton, F H ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACTION POTENTIAL PROPAGATION; ARRHYTHMIAS; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; CARDIAC DYNAMICS; FIBRILLATION; TACHYCARDIA;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 0034483869     PISSN: 02766574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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