Antenatal architecture and activity of the human heart

Interface Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Pervolaraki, Eleftheria ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^b   Benson, Alan P ^a   Hayes Gill, Barrie ^c   Holden, Arun V ^a   Moore, Benjamin J R ^a   Paley, Martyn N ^d   Zhang, Henggui ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Computational modelling; Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; Foetal ECG; Foetal heart development; Myocardial architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875474829     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0065     Document Type: Article

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