Construction and validation of anisotropic and orthotropic ventricular geometries for quantitative predictive cardiac electrophysiology

Interface Focus

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-116

  Benson, Alan P ^a   Bernus, Olivier ^a   Dierckx, Hans ^b   Gilbert, Stephen H ^a   Greenwood, John P ^a   Holden, Arun V ^a   Mohee, Kevin ^a   Plein, Sven ^a   Radjenovic, Aleksandra ^a   Ries, Michael E ^a   Smith, Godfrey L ^c   Sourbron, Steven ^a   Walton, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmia; Computational modelling; Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium; Optical imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055165622     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2010.0005     Document Type: Review

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