The significant effect of the choice of ionic current integration method in cardiac electro-physiological simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1751-1770

  Pathmanathan, Pras ^a   Mirams, Gary R ^a   Southern, James ^b   Whiteley, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac electro physiology; Conduction velocity; Interpolation; Ionic current; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROBLEMS; CARDIAC ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY; CELL MODEL; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; FINITE ELEMENTS; HYBRID METHOD; INTEGRATION METHOD; IONIC CURRENT; MESH NODES; SODIUM CURRENT; STATE VARIABLES;

INTERPOLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SODIUM; VELOCITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 80053611244     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1438     Document Type: Article

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