A reliability analysis of cardiac repolarization time markers

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-128

  Scacchi, S ^a   Franzone, P Colli ^b   Pavarino, L F ^a   Taccardi, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential duration; Activation recovery interval; Bidomain model; Electrograms; Parallel numerical simulations; Repolarization sequence

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ACTIVATION-RECOVERY INTERVAL; BIDOMAIN MODEL; ELECTROGRAMS; PARALLEL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; REPOLARIZATION SEQUENCE;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CELL MEMBRANES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERICARDIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349104115     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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