Abstract
Mathematical models are now an important tool for studying cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias. Utilizing these models to quantify behavior and make predictions requires solving the models computationally using numerical schemes. We discuss different solution methods and other computational considerations for simulating cardiac action potentials in single cells and multicellular preparations.
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This work was supported by NSF grant CCF-0926190.
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Bell, M.M., Cherry, E.M. (2015). Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology: Implementing Mathematical Models of Cardiomyocytes to Simulate Action Potentials of the Heart. In: Skuse, G., Ferran, M. (eds) Cardiomyocytes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1299. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2572-8_5
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