An image-based model of atrial muscular architecture effects of structural anisotropy on electrical activation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 361-370

  Zhao, Jichao ^a   Butters, Timothy D ^c   Zhang, Henggui ^c   Pullan, Andrew J ^a,b   LeGrice, Ian J ^a,b   Sands, Gregory B ^a   Smaill, Bruce H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial myoarchitecture; Computer model; Electric simulation; Fiber orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RHYTHM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATRIAL SEPTUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART ATRIA; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOFIBRILS; SHEEP;

EID: 84862263178     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.967950     Document Type: Article

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