A computer model of human atria with reasonable computation load and realistic anatomical properties

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1229-1237

  Blanc, Olivier ^a   Virag, Nathalie ^b   Vesin, Jean Marc ^a,d   Kappenberger, Lukas ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Medtronic Europe SA   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial arrhythmias; Computer modeling; Electrical propagation; Fibrillation; Flutter; Human atria

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0034774595     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.959315     Document Type: Article

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