Enhanced susceptibility to alternans in a rabbit model of chronic myocardial infarction

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 4527-4530

  Lou, Qing ^a   Efimov, Igor R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATIONS; ACTIVATION CYCLES; FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OPTICAL MAPPING; RABBIT MODELS; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYES;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 77950994899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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