Toward GPGPU accelerated human electromechanical cardiac simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-134

  Vigueras, Guillermo ^a   Roy, Ishani ^a   Cookson, Andrew ^a   Lee, Jack ^a   Smith, Nicolas ^a   Nordsletten, David ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiology; Electromechanics; GPU; Tissue mechanics

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COUPLED ELECTROMECHANICS; ELECTRO-MECHANICS; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MULTIPHYSICS PROBLEMS; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; TISSUE MECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICS; GPU; HEART; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE MECHANICS;

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROMECHANICS; GPU; TISSUE MECHANICS;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84891954767     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2593     Document Type: Article

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