Electrophysiological substrate for a dominant reentrant source during atrial fibrillation

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 2819-2822

  Aslanidi, Oleg V ^a   Robinson, Robert ^a   Cheverton, Deborah ^a   Boyett, Mark R ^b   Zhang, Henggui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL TISSUES; EXCITATION PATTERN; GLOBAL INTERACTION; SPIRAL WAVES; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY;

DISEASES;

EID: 77951000643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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