Catching the Beat

Dana Mackenzie
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Dana Mackenzie: Freelance mathematics and science writer

Chapter 19 in Simula Research Laboratory, 2010, pp 249-258 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the most common ways for heart disease to manifest itself in humans is called arrhythmia—an abnormal heartbeat. For instance, the heart may beat too rapidly (tachycardia), or it may flutter very weakly and irregularly (fibrillation). One of the greatest challenges of computational biology is to understand how a physical disease process—such as the formation of scar tissue in the heart—leads to a disruption in the heart’s normal timing.

Keywords: Action Potential Duration; Heart Cell; Spiral Wave; Electrical Wave; Study Computer Science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6_19

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