Genre
- Journal Article
The effectiveness of chaos control in large systems increases with the number of control sites. We find that electric field induced wave emission from heterogeneities (WEH) in the heart gives a unique opportunity to have as many control sites as needed. The number of pacing sites grows with the amplitude of the electric field. We demonstrate that WEH has important advantages over methods used in clinics, and opens a new way to manipulate vortices in experiments, and potentially to radically improve the clinical methods of chaos control in the heart.
Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, CNRS,F-06560 Valbonne, France. alain.pumir@unice.fr
United States
American Physical Society : Ridge, NY
Accession Number: 18233188. Language: English. Language Code: eng. Date Created: 20080131. Date Completed: 20080501. Update Code: 20111122. Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't. Journal ID: 0401141. Publication Model: Print-Electronic. Cited Medium: Print. NLM ISO Abbr: Phys. Rev. Lett. Linking ISSN: 00319007. Subset: IM. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 Nov 13; ID: 18233188
Source type: Electronic(1)
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Language
- English
Subjects
- Electrophysiology
- Myocardial Contraction
- Models, Cardiovascular*
- Membrane Potentials
- Heart/*physiology