Electric field perturbations of spiral waves attached to millimeter-size obstacles

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1533-1541

  Cysyk, Joshua ^a   Tung, Leslie ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 38949110757     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.116244     Document Type: Article

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