Heterogeneous and anisotropic integrative model of pulmonary veins: Computational study of arrhythmogenic substrate for atrial fibrillation

Interface Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Aslanidi, Oleg V ^a   Colman, Michael A ^b   Varela, Marta ^a   Zhao, Jichao ^d   Smaill, Bruce H ^d   Hancox, Jules C ^e   Boyett, Mark R ^c   Zhang, Henggui ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics School of Physics and Astronomy   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrhythmias; Integrative modelling; Re entrant waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875426720     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0069     Document Type: Article

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