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Project

Development of electrochemical model of the human heart: discrete and fiber based approaches
Code
01SF1511
Duration
01 May 2012 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Biomechanics
    • Biophysics
    • Biomechanics
    • Biophysics
    • Biomechanics
    • Biophysics
Keywords
cardiac modelling curvilinear coordinate systems discrete mechanics
 
Project description
 

Modelling electromechanical function of the heart is important for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of cardac arrhythmias as well as for improvement of clinical procedures.

Aim of this project is development of electromechanical model of the human heart by combining: (1) anatomy data from IMM+IIP (Russia), (2) contraction model developed at IIP and (3) mechanoelectrical computational framework of UGent.