Simulations of the electrical activity in the heart with graphic processing units

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6067 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 439-448

  Rocha, Bernardo M ^a   Campos, Fernando O ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a   Dos Santos, Rodrigo W ^b   Liebmann, Manfred ^c   Haase, Gundolf ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac Electrophysiology; Computer Simulations; Graphic Processing Units; High Performance Computing

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC TISSUES; DRUG TESTS; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE HEART; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH DEFINITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MANY-CORE; MULTITHREADED; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REAL TIME; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SYSTEM OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77955115679     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14390-8_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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