Fibrillatory conduction in branching atrial tissue-Insight from volumetric and monolayer computer models

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-111

  Wieser, L ^a   Fischer, G ^a   Nowak, C N ^a   Tilg, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Branching tissue; Computer model; Monolayer

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLAYERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF); BRANCHING TISSUES; COMPUTER MODELS; DRIVING ROTORS;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION; VOLUMETRY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUSTRIA; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS;

EID: 34047253422     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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