A 2D-computer model of atrial tissue based on histographs describes the electro-anatomical impact of microstructure on endocardiac potentials and electric near-fields

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2541-2544

  Campos, Fernando O ^a   Wiener, Thomas ^a   Prassl, Anton J ^a   Ahammer, Helmut ^a   Plank, Gernot ^a   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^b   Sánchez Quintana, Damián ^c   Hofer, Ernst ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TISSUE;

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTION; ATRIAL TISSUES; CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPLEX SIGNAL; COMPUTER MODELS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; ELECTRIC SIGNAL; EXTRACELLULAR POTENTIAL; INTERSTITIAL SPACE; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; MULTI-SITE; NEAR-FIELD; PARALLEL FIBERS; RABBIT HEARTS; SUB-CELLULAR; TISSUE SLICE; TISSUE SURFACE;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBROSIS; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBROSIS; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650821660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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