Cardiac electrophysiology and tissue structure: Bridging the scale gap with a joint measurement and modelling paradigm

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-370

  Trew, Mark L ^a   Caldwell, Bryan J ^a   Sands, Gregory B ^a   Hooks, Darren A ^a   Tai, Dean C S ^a   Austin, Travis M ^a   LeGrice, Ian J ^a,b   Pullan, Andrew J ^a,b   Smaill, Bruce H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SWINE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

EID: 33644827784     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031054     Document Type: Article

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