Simulation of clinical electrophysiology in 3D human atria: A high-performance computing and high-performance visualization application

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1317-1328

  Kharche, Sanjay ^a   Seemann, Gunnar ^b   Margetts, Lee ^a   Leng, Joanna ^a   Holden, Arun V ^c   Zhang, Henggui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D anatomically detailed model; Biophysically detailed model; Large scale simulations

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DISEASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NEUROLOGY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION;

3D ANATOMICALLY DETAILED MODEL; BIOPHYSICALLY DETAILED MODEL; CELLULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 49149121236     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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