Bridging experiments, models and simulations: An integrative approach to validation in computational cardiac electrophysiology

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Carusi, Annamaria ^a,b   Burrage, Kevin ^a   Rodríguez, Blanca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Computational physiology; Computer simulations; Systems biology; Whole ventricular models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TESTING REDUCTION; ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; ANIMAL TESTING REPLACEMENT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864096922     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01151.2011     Document Type: Review

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