Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

Sundnes, Joakim; Lines, Glenn Terje; Cai, Xing; Nielsen, Bjørn Frederik; Mardal, Kent-Andre; Tveito, Aslak

ISBN 10: 3642070051 / ISBN 13: 9783642070051

Verlag: Springer, 2010

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The heart is a fantastic machine; during a normal lifetime it beats about 2.5 billion times and pumps 200.000 tons of blood through an enormous system of vessels extending 160.000 kilometres throughout the body. For centuries, man has tried to understand how the heart works, but there remain many unsolved problems, problems that have captured the attention of thousands of researchers worldwide. There is, for example, a huge amount of research being devoted to the analysis of single heart cells. Other areas of research include trying to understand how it works as a complete muscle, and how blood ows through the heart. The entire process is extremely complex. The history of bioelectricity can be traced back to the late eighteenth century and the experiments of Luigi Galvani. A century later, in 1887, Augustus Wallers managed to measure the electrical signal generated by the heart at the surface of the body [142]. His dog Jimmy earned a place in history by being the rst to have his heart measured in this way; see Figure 1.1. In 1903 Willem Einthoven [34] - veloped the rst commercial device for recording electrocardiograms (ECGs); see Figure 1.2.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Joakim Sundnes is Chief Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory and teaches undergraduate programming at the University of Oslo. His research is in scientific computing and computational science, mostly focused on biomechanics and computational physiology, and involves extensive programming in Python and other languages. For the last five years he has been responsible for the main introductory programming class for natural science students at the University of Oslo, and he has also taught multiple graduate courses in computational physiology and applied mathematics.

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Titel: Computing the Electrical Activity in the ...
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Softcover
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