Modeling of cardiac ischemia in human myocytes and tissue including spatiotemporal electrophysiological variations;Modellierung kardialer Ischämie in menschlichen Myozyten und Gewebe

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 107-125

  Weiss, Daniel L ^a   Ifland, Manuel ^a   Sachse, Frank B ^b   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac ischemia; Computational modeling; Ion channel; Spatiotemporal variations

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATIONS; ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTION; BIDOMAIN; CARDIAC DISEASE; CARDIAC ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; IN-SILICO; ION CHANNEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MYOCYTES; PEAK VOLTAGE; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATIONS; T WAVES; TISSUE LEVELS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOXIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

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

EID: 67649723418     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2009.016     Document Type: Article

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