title: Utilizing the eikonal relationship in strategies for reentrant wave termination in excitable media.
abstract: Obstacle-anchored vortices can be terminated by the application of high-frequency wave trains in excitable media. We theoretically derived the dependency between the obstacle radius and the maximum unpinning period through reinterpretation of the well-known eikonal equation. Our theoretical result was confirmed by experiments with cardiomyocyte monolayers. This result may be useful for improving the stimulation protocol of implantable cardiac pacemakers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. marcel@chem.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hörning
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Isomura
authors.forename: Zhiheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Entcheva
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa