In-silico modeling of atrial repolarization in normal and atrial fibrillation remodeled state

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1105-1119

  Krueger, Martin W ^a   Dorn, Andreas ^a   Keller, David U J ^a   Holmqvist, Fredrik ^b   Carlson, Jonas ^b   Platonov, Pyotr G ^b   Rhode, Kawal S ^c   Razavi, Reza ^c   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial repolarization; Cardiac electrophysiology; Electrical remodeling; Multi scale cardiac modeling

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MODEL; ELECTRICAL REMODELING; REPOLARIZATION;

DISEASES; NEUROLOGY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ANATOMIC MODEL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORAX;

EID: 84896720772     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-013-1090-1     Document Type: Article

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