title: The effect of gap junctional distribution on defibrillation.
abstract: We summarize a mathematical theory for direct activation and defibrillation of cardiac tissue. We show that the direct stimulus and defibrillation thresholds are likely to be strongly affected by the gap junctional distribution and density, suggesting an indirect experimental test of the theory. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
authors.forename: James P.
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Keener