The role of heterogeneities and intercellular coupling in wave propagation in cardiac tissue

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1842, 2006, Pages 1299-1311

  Steinberg, Benjamin E ^a   Glass, Leon ^b   Shrier, Alvin ^b   Bub, Gll ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmia; Excitable media; FitzHugh Nagumo; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646529884     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1771     Document Type: Article

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