Atrial fibrillation-based electrical remodeling in a computer model of the human atrium

Computing in Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2010, Pages 417-420

  Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Bustamante, Paola Carrillo ^b   Ponto, Stefan ^a   Wilhelms, Mathias ^a   Scholz, Eberhard P ^c   Dösse, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPUTER MODELS; ELECTRICAL REMODELING; GAP JUNCTIONS; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY;

CARDIOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAINTENANCE;

DISEASES;

EID: 79953834550     PISSN: 23258861     EISSN: 2325887X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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