Qualitative support for the gradient model of cardiac pacemaker heterogeneity

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 133-136

  Cloherty, Shaun L ^a   Dokos, Socrates ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IONIC MODELS; PACEMAKER HETEROGENEITY; SINOATRIAL NODE (SAN); WAVESHAPES;

PACEMAKERS;

EID: 33846908111     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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