A finite element approach for modeling micro-structural discontinuities in the heart

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 437-440

  Costa, Caroline Mendonca ^a   Campos, Fernando O ^b   Prassl, Anton J ^b   Dos Santos, Rodrigo Weber ^a   Sanchez Quintana, Damian ^c   Hofer, Ernst ^b   Plank, Gernot ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION; ELECTRICAL PROPAGATION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSCOPIC SCALE; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; SIZE SCALE; SUB-CELLULAR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COLLAGEN; HEART; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84861939219     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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