Computational methods for cardiac electromechanics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 769-782

  Kerckhoffs, Roy C P ^a   Healy, Sarah N ^a   Usyk, Taras P ^a   Mcculloch, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Cardiac mechanics; Cell; Circulatory; Heart modeling; Multiscale; Organ; System; Tissue

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MECHANICS; HEART MODELING;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 33845477007     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.871772     Document Type: Article

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