Anisotropy of wave propagation in the heart can be modeled by a Riemannian electrophysiological metric

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 15063-15068

  Young, Robert J ^a   Panfilov, Alexander V ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; Cardiac electrophysiology; Diffusion tensor MRI; Patient specific cardiac models; Riemannian geometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; METRIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; DOG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77957016121     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008837107     Document Type: Article

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