Ventricular fibrillation: Evolution of the multiple-wavelet hypothesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1783, 2001, Pages 1315-1325

  Panfilov, A ^a   Pertsov, A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; Chaos; Fibrillation; Spiral waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142127768     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2001.0833     Document Type: Review

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