Deep Entry of Defibrillating Effects into Homogeneous Cardiac Tissue

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 401-407

  Otani, Niels F ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidomain model; Cardiac defibrillation; Cardiac electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEFIBRILLATION; HEART;

TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANISOTROPY; ARRHYTHMIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 1242321164     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.820995     Document Type: Article

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