{"title":"Stability of spiral wave reentry on curved surfaces","authors":"J. Rogers, R. Ideker, W.M. Smith","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652798","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Reentrant spiral waves propagating on curved surfaces lying in 3D space were modeled using a finite element solution of a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Under some conditions, surface topology could induce drift of nominally stationary spirals, even in the absence of heterogeneity or anisotropy. These dynamics may be important in the maintenance of reentrant arrhythmias.","PeriodicalId":20427,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"254 1","pages":"1254-1255 vol.3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.1996.652798","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Reentrant spiral waves propagating on curved surfaces lying in 3D space were modeled using a finite element solution of a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Under some conditions, surface topology could induce drift of nominally stationary spirals, even in the absence of heterogeneity or anisotropy. These dynamics may be important in the maintenance of reentrant arrhythmias.