Phase-resolved analysis of the susceptibility of pinned spiral waves to far-field pacing in a two-dimensional model of excitable media

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1918, 2010, Pages 2221-2236

  Bittihn, Philip ^a,b   Squires, Amgad ^b,d   Luther, Gisa ^b   Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^b   Krinsky, Valentin ^b,e   Parlitz, Ulrich ^a   Luther, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c Universität Götttingen ^*

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardiac dynamics; Chaos control; Excitable media; Spiral waves; Virtual electrodes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ROTATION;

CARDIAC DYNAMICS; CHAOS CONTROL; EXCITABLE MEDIA; SPIRAL WAVES; VIRTUAL ELECTRODE;

WAVES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PACING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952520272     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0038     Document Type: Article

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