Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 796-802 , June 2009

Transmural optical measurements of Vm dynamics during long-duration ventricular fibrillation in canine hearts

  • Wei Kong, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • ,
  • Raymond E. Ideker, MD, PhD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • Department of Physiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • ,
  • Vladimir G. Fast, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Vladimir G. Fast, University of Alabama-Birmingham, 1670 University Boulevard, VH B126, Birmingham, Alabama 35294

Received 11 December 2008 ,Accepted 18 February 2009.

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 This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants HL28429, HL85370 and HL67748. The authors thank the Southern Research Institute for providing resources for this study, Dr. Shouluan Ding for help with statistical analysis, and Reuben Collins and Frank Vance for technical support.

PII: S1547-5271(09)00210-0

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.02.028

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 796-802 , June 2009

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