Death, dynamics and disorder: Terminating reentry in excitable media by dynamically-induced inhomogeneities

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 553-562

  Breuer, Johannes ^a,b   Sinha, Sitabhra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disorder; Pacing; Reentry; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHAOS THEORY; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRODES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE;

EXCITATION WAVES; IMPLANTABLE DEVICE (ICD); RAPID PACING; REENTRANT CIRCUITS; TACHYCARDIA;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 15744388579     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02706203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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