Effects of the purkinje system and cardiac geometry on biventricular pacing: A model study

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1388-1398

  Romero, Daniel ^a,b   Sebastian, Rafael ^a,b   Bijnens, Bart H ^a,b,c   Zimmerman, Viviana ^a,b   Boyle, Patrick M ^d   Vigmond, Edward J ^d   Frangi, Alejandro F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac geometry; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Electrophysiology; Heart modeling; Purkinje system; Ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; HEART MODELING; PURKINJE SYSTEM; VENTRICULAR PACING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HEART;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PURKINJE FIBER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PURKINJE FIBERS;

EID: 77952011167     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9926-4     Document Type: Article

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