Modeling ventricular excitation: axial and orthotropic anisotropy effects on wavefronts and potentials
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Piero Colli-Franzone1, Luciano Guerri, Bruno Taccardi
1Dipartimento di Matematica, Istituto di Analisi Numerica del C.N.R, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia 27100, Italy. colli@imati.cnr.it
Mathematical Biosciences
|February 10, 2004
Abstract:
By applying the eikonal approximation to the bidomain model of the cardiac tissue we investigate the influence of the axially isotropic and orthotropic conductivity tensors on the propagation of the excitation wavefronts and on the associated potential distribution and electrograms.
