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From local to global spatiotemporal chaos in a cardiac tissue model
1Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
Abstract:
Two kinds of chaos can occur in cardiac tissue, chaotic meander of a single intact spiral wave and chaotic spiral wave breakup. We studied these behaviors in a model of two-dimensional cardiac tissue based on the Luo-Rudy I action potential model. In the chaotic meander regime, chaos is spatially localized to the core of the spiral wave. When persistent spiral wave breakup occurs, there is a transition from local to global spatiotemporal chaos.