Stochastic aspects of cardiac arrhythmias

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 347-374

  Lerma, Claudia ^a,b   Krogh Madsen, Trine ^c   Guevara, Michael ^a   Glass, Leon ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early afterdepolarizations; Ionic models; Phase resetting; Premature ventricular complexes; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249907272     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-006-9191-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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