Spontaneous termination of atrial fibrillation: Study of the effect of atrial geometry in a biophysical model

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4504-4507

  Uldry, Laurent ^a   Virag, Nathalie ^b   Jacquemet, Vincent ^a   Vesin, Jean Marc ^a   Kappenberger, Lukas ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Medtronic Europe   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; WAVEFRONTS;

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CYCLE LENGTH; LEFT ATRIUMS; SPONTANEOUS TERMINATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATIONS; TERMINATION MECHANISMS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 77950978084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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