Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 157.e1-157.e10 , March 2009

Image-based models of cardiac structure with applications in arrhythmia and defibrillation studies

  • Fijoy Vadakkumpadan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
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  • Lukas J. Rantner, MS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
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  • Brock Tice, BS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
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  • Patrick Boyle, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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  • Anton J. Prassl, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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  • Edward Vigmond, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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  • Gernot Plank, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biophysics and Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 316 380 7745; fax: +43 316 380 9660.
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  • Natalia Trayanova, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Computational Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA

Received 22 November 2008

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☆ This work was supported by NIH grants R01-HL063195, R01-HL082729, and R01-HL067322, and the NSF grant CBET-0601935 to NT, by the Mathematics of Information Systems and Complex Systems network and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to EV, and by a Marie Curie Fellowship MC-OIF 040190 and the Austrian Science Fund grant SFB F3210-N18 to GP. Furthermore, the authors thank the teams of Drs Kohl, Gavaghan, and Schneider at the University of Oxford for access to data from their 3D Heart Project, BBSRC grant E003443.

PII: S0022-0736(08)00491-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2008.12.003

Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 157.e1-157.e10 , March 2009

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