Complex structure and dynamics of the heart [electronic resource] / Philip Bittihn.
Bittihn, Philip, author.
2015
QM181
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Title Complex structure and dynamics of the heart [electronic resource] / Philip Bittihn.
Author Bittihn, Philip, author.
ISBN 9783319122328 electronic book
3319122320 electronic book
9783319122311
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12232-8
Published Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-12232-8 doi
Call Number QM181
Dewey Decimal Classification 611.12
Summary This award-winning thesis investigates the mechanisms underlying cardiac arrhythmia development and termination from an entirely new perspective. By viewing the heart as a complex system, the author uses theoretical tools from nonlinear dynamics combined with numerical simulations and experiments to achieve insights into the relationship between its structure and dynamics, thereby paving the way towards innovative low-energy defibrillation strategies. The work tackles, among other things: the effect of substrate heterogeneity on the spatial-temporal dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias and ways in which weak pulsed electric fields can be used to control these dynamics in heterogeneous cardiac tissue. The long-term vision of this research is to replace the current strategy of applying painful and sometimes tissue damaging electric shock ? currently the only reliable way to terminate life-threatening fibrillation ? by a more subtle but equally effective intervention. The book maps out a number of promising research directions for biophysicists and medical researchers working on the origins and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
Note "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Göttingen, Germany."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 14, 2015).
Series Springer theses.
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Introduction
Methods
Results
Conclusion
Appendix A Modeling Details
Appendix B Supplementary Data
Appendix C MediaSim
An Open Framework for Simulating Extended Systems
Index.

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