Subject-specific, multiscale simulation of electrophysiology: A software pipeline for image-based models and application examples

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1896, 2009, Pages 2293-2310

  Macleod, R S ^a,b,c   Stinstra, J G ^a,b   Lew, S ^b,c   Whitaker, R T ^b,c   Swenson, D J ^b,c   Cole, M J ^b   Kruger J ^b   Brooks, D H ^d   Johnson, C R ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Electrophysiology; Geometric modelling; Mesh generation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MESH GENERATION; NEUROLOGY; PIPELINES; SIMULATORS;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMON FORMAT; DEFIBRILLATION; GEOMETRIC MODELLING; GEOMETRIC MODELS; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED MODELS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS; PROCESSING STEPS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOFTWARE PIPELINE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; TISSUE PROPERTIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650895382     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0314     Document Type: Article

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