Electrical refractory period restitution and spiral wave reentry in simulated cardiac tissue

F Xie, Z Qu, A Garfinkel… - American Journal of …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Theoretical and experimental studies have shown that restitution of the cardiac action
potential (AP) duration (APD) plays a major role in predisposing ventricular tachycardia to …

An efficient isogeometric collocation approach to cardiac electrophysiology

M Torre, S Morganti, A Nitti, MD de Tullio… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose an isogeometric collocation approach to an efficient solution of the
monodomain reaction–diffusion equation. The strong formulation, compared to standard …

The significant effect of the choice of ionic current integration method in cardiac electro‐physiological simulations

P Pathmanathan, GR Mirams… - International Journal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Finite element (FE) cardiac electro‐physiology solvers commonly have ionic current
determined at mesh nodes but required element interiors. We consider two interpolation …

Computational modeling and numerical methods for spatiotemporal calcium cycling in ventricular myocytes

M Nivala, E de Lange, R Rovetti, Z Qu - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Intracellular calcium (Ca) cycling dynamics in cardiac myocytes is regulated by a complex
network of spatially distributed organelles, such as sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) …

[HTML][HTML] Experimentally-guided in silico design of engineered heart tissues to improve cardiac electrical function after myocardial infarction

RM Rosales, KA Mountris, A Oliván-Viguera… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Engineered heart tissues (EHTs) built from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived
cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) showed promising results for cardiac function restoration …

Critical mass hypothesis revisited: role of dynamical wave stability in spontaneous termination of cardiac fibrillation

Z Qu - American Journal of Physiology-Heart and …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
The tendency of atrial or ventricular fibrillation to terminate spontaneously in finite-sized
tissue is known as the critical mass hypothesis. Previous studies have shown that dynamical …

Computational electrocardiology: mathematical and numerical modeling

P Colli Franzone, LF Pavarino, G Savaré - Complex systems in …, 2006 - Springer
This paper deals with mathematical models of cardiac bioelectric activity at both the cell and
tissue levels, their integration in coupled models and their numerical simulation. The …

[HTML][HTML] The canine virtual ventricular wall: a platform for dissecting pharmacological effects on propagation and arrhythmogenesis

AP Benson, OV Aslanidi, H Zhang… - Progress in biophysics and …, 2008 - Elsevier
We have constructed computational models of canine ventricular cells and tissues,
ultimately combining detailed tissue architecture and heterogeneous transmural …

Acceleration of cardiac tissue simulation with graphic processing units

D Sato, Y Xie, JN Weiss, Z Qu, A Garfinkel… - Medical & biological …, 2009 - Springer
In this technical note we show the promise of using graphic processing units (GPUs) to
accelerate simulations of electrical wave propagation in cardiac tissue, one of the more …

Formation of spatially discordant alternans due to fluctuations and diffusion of calcium

D Sato, DM Bers, Y Shiferaw - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Spatially discordant alternans (SDA) of action potential duration (APD) is a phenomenon
where different regions of cardiac tissue exhibit an alternating sequence of APD that are out …