Development of an anatomically detailed MRI-derived rabbit ventricular model and assessment of its impact on simulations of electrophysiological function

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bishop, Martin J ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a,b   Burton, Rebecca A B ^a   Schneider, Jürgen E ^a   Gavaghan, David J ^a   Grau, Vicente ^a   Kohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 74949089885     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00606.2009     Document Type: Article

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