A computational approach to understanding the cardiac electromechanical activation sequence in the normal and failing heart, with translation to the clinical practice of CRT.

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Published in Prog Biophys Mol Biol on August 01, 2012

Authors

Jason Constantino1, Yuxuan Hu, Natalia A Trayanova

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

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