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Reentry around non-conducting ventricular scar tissue, which often causes lethal arrhythmias, is typically treated by rapid stimulation from an implantable defibrillator. However, the mechanisms of termination (success and failure) are…
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A discrete time model that is capable of replicating the basic features of cardiac cell action potentials is suggested. The paper shows how the map-based approaches can be used to design highly efficient computational models (algorithms)…
We aim to assess the effectiveness of feedback controlled resonant drift pacing as a method for low energy defibrillation. Antitachycardia pacing is the only low energy defibrillation approach to have gained clinical significance, but it is…
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We investigate a probabilistic cellular automaton model which has been introduced recently. This model describes single-lane traffic flow on a ring and generalizes the asymmetric exclusion process models. We study the equilibrium properties…
The locality of solution features in cardiac electrophysiology simulations calls for adaptive methods. Due to the overhead incurred by established mesh refinement and coarsening, however, such approaches failed in accelerating the…
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