Non-uniform dispersion of the source-sink relationship alters wavefront curvature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Romero, Lucia ^a   Trenor, Beatriz ^a   Ferrero, Jose M ^a   Starmer, C Frank ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 84892573074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078328     Document Type: Article

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