Meandering of spiral waves in anisotropic cardiac tissue

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 127-136

  Roth, Bradley J ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

87.22. q; 87.22.As; 87.90.+y; Anisotropy; Bidomain; Cardiac; Meander; Spiral wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040332090     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00145-2     Document Type: Article

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