Acceleration of cardiac tissue simulation with graphic processing units

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1011-1015

  Sato, Daisuke ^a   Xie, Yuanfang ^a   Weiss, James N ^a   Qu, Zhilin ^a   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Sanderson, Allen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitable media; General purpose computing on graphics processing units; Whole heart simulation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES; CARDIAC TISSUES; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; ELECTRICAL WAVES; EXCITABLE MEDIA; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING ON GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; OPTERON; TECHNICAL NOTES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); WHOLE HEART SIMULATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE; IMAGE CODING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART STIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROPROCESSOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS;

EID: 69849097163     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0514-4     Document Type: Article

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