Constructive volume geometry applied to visualization of cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3591-3604

  Chen, Min ^a   Tucker, John V ^a   Clayton, Richard H ^b   Holden, Arun V ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac anatomy; Computational electrophysiology; Constructive volume geometry; CVG; Virtual heart engineering; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTEINS; TISSUE; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CARDIAC ANATOMY; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONSTRUCTIVE VOLUME GEOMETRY (CVG); VIRTUAL HEART ENGINEERING;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 1642309384     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127403008946     Document Type: Article

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