Incorporating histology into a 3D microscopic computer model of myocardium to study propagation at a cellular level

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1399-1414

  Stinstra, Jeroen ^a   MacLeod, Rob ^b   Henriquez, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tissue; Computer model; Propagation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; APPARENT CONDUCTIVITY; BIDOMAIN; BIDOMAIN MODELS; CARDIAC ACTIVATION; CARDIAC TISSUES; CELLULAR LEVELS; COMPUTER ALGORITHM; COMPUTER MODELS; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS; GAP-JUNCTIONS; HEALTHY TISSUES; HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES; MICRODOMAIN; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; MYOCYTES; PROPAGATION SIMULATION; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHMS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 77952010639     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9883-y     Document Type: Article

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