Cardiac Electrophysiology Methods and Models

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sigg, Daniel C. (Editor), Iaizzo, Paul A. (Editor), Xiao, Yong-Fu (Editor), He, Bin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Biomedical, pharmaceutical and medical personnel are interested in studying aspects of arrhythmias at a basic, translational and applied level. The overall understanding of the molecular basis of disease has dramatically increased, as well as the number of available and emerging molecular, pharmacol...

Table of Contents:

• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: An Overview of Its Evolution
• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: An Overview of Its Evolution
• Overview
• Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology: Excitable Membranes
• Cardiac Action Potentials, Ion Channels, and Gap Junctions
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiac Conduction System
• The Electrocardiogram and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Methods and Models
• Principles of Electrophysiological In Vitro Measurements
• Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiological Modeling
• Computer Modeling of Electrical Activation: From Cellular Dynamics to the Whole Heart
• Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Ion Channels
• Cell Culture Models and Methods
• Isolated Tissue Models
• Isolated Heart Models
• Small Animal Models for Arrhythmia Studies
• Use of Large Animal Models for Cardiac Electrophysiology Studies
• Optical Mapping and Calcium Imaging
• Electrophysiology of Single Cardiomyocytes: Patch Clamp and Other Recording Methods
• Invasive Electroanatomical Mapping and Navigation
• Cardiac Electrophysiological Imaging: Solving the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography
• Traditional Electrophysiological Mapping
• Multi-channel System for Analysis of Cardiac Rhythmicity and Conductivity In Vitro
• Cardiac CT/MRI Imaging for Electrophysiology
• Putting It All Together
• to Translational Research
• Clinical Perspective: Electrophysiology in the Young and Patients with Congenital Heart Disease.