Activation dynamics in anisotropic cardiac tissue via decoupling

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 984-990

  Clements, John C ^a   Nenonen, Jukka ^b,c   Li, P K J ^a   Horáček, B Milan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bidomain models; Cardiac dynamics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACTIVATION DYNAMICS; BIDOMAIN MODELS; CARDIAC DYNAMICS; CARDIAC MUSCLES;

TISSUE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 3843077417     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ABME.0000032461.80932.eb     Document Type: Article

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