Effects of Heterogeneous Diffuse Fibrosis on Arrhythmia Dynamics and Mechanism

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kazbanov, Ivan V ^a   Ten Tusscher, Kirsten H W J ^b   Panfilov, Alexander V ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPLICATION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84958073591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20835     Document Type: Article

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