Towards predictive modelling of the electrophysiology of the heart

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 563-577

  Vigmond, Edward ^a   Vadakkumpadan, Fijoy ^b   Gurev, Viatcheslav ^b   Arevalo, Hermenegild ^b   Deo, Makarand ^a   Plank, Gernot ^c   Trayanova, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; HEART; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PURKINJE FIBER;

EID: 64749093367     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2008.044073     Document Type: Article

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