A macro finite-element formulation for cardiac electrophysiology simulations using hybrid unstructured grids

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1055-1065

  Rocha, Bernardo M ^a,b   Kickinger, Ferdinand ^c   Prassl, Anton J ^a   Haase, Gundolf ^d   Vigmond, Edward J ^e   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^f   Zaglmayr, Sabine ^g   Plank, Gernot ^a,h  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b National Laboratory of Scientific Computing   (Brazil)

^c CAE Software Solutions   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^g GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bidomain equations; conduction velocity; numerical accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION TIME; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BIDOMAIN; BIDOMAIN EQUATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MODELING; CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPLEX TISSUES; COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; DIRECT USE; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; HYBRID MESHES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MEMORY USAGE; MONODOMAIN SIMULATION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PROPAGATION SIMULATION; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEART; NEUROLOGY; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HYBRID MESH; SIMULATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 79952913725     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2064167     Document Type: Article

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