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ArticleBiophysical journal2005

Interpreting biomagnetic fields of planar wave fronts in cardiac muscle.

Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Hans Koch

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The magnetocardiogram.Biophysics reviews · 2024
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  2. Biomagnetism: The First Sixty Years.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rodrigo Weber dos SantosDivision of Medical Physics and Metrological, Information Technology, Physikalisch-Technische, Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany.
Hans Koch

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent results of Holzer and co-workers reveal the existence of net currents that flow along the front of a planar wave propagating through cardiac tissue. This is an important contribution toward the better understanding of the physics of biomagnetic fields. However, although the authors claim their results reveal particular bidomain properties, we show in this short letter that the results allow multiple interpretations. For instance, cardiac anisotropy by itself may also explain the existence of a net current along the wave front. Based on our calculations, we suggest additional experiments that would allow distinguishing between these two explanations and thus provide further evidence on the basic physics behind cardiac biomagnetism.

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AnimalsAnisotropyBiophysicsBody Surface Potential MappingElectrocardiographyElectrophysiologyHeart Conduction SystemHeart VentriclesImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMagneticsMembrane PotentialsModels, StatisticalMyocardium

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PMID15722426
PMCPMC1305519

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