Papers Published

1. Cabo, Candido and Barr, Roger C., Refractory period in the DiFrancesco-Noble model for Purkinje fibers, Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 13 no. pt 2 (1991), pp. 523 - 524 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/12)

   Abstract:
   An investigation was conducted into the refractory period of the DiFrancesco-Noble (DN) membrane model for Purkinje fibers. The results show that the DN model reproduces refractory period properties of real tissue like: supernormality, supernormal conduction and the strength-interval curve. These results suggest that the DN model will be a useful membrane model in the simulation of situations where the properties of the refractory period are crucial.

   Keywords:
   Biomedical Engineering - Cardiology;Computer Simulation;Analogies;