Spiral Wave Generation in a Vortex Electric Field

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 100505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ping Yuan ◽  
Jiang-Xing Chen ◽  
Ye-Hua Zhao ◽  
Qin Lou ◽  
Lu-Lu Wang ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Shreyas Punacha ◽  
Sebastian Berg ◽  
Anupama Sebastian ◽  
Valentin I. Krinski ◽  
Stefan Luther ◽  
...  

Rotating spiral waves of electrical activity in the heart can anchor to unexcitable tissue (an obstacle) and become stable pinned waves. A pinned rotating wave can be unpinned either by a local electrical stimulus applied close to the spiral core, or by an electric field pulse that excites the core of a pinned wave independently of its localization. The wave will be unpinned only when the pulse is delivered inside a narrow time interval called the unpinning window (UW) of the spiral. In experiments with cardiac monolayers, we found that other obstacles situated near the pinning centre of the spiral can facilitate unpinning. In numerical simulations, we found increasing or decreasing of the UW depending on the location, orientation and distance between the pinning centre and an obstacle. Our study indicates that multiple obstacles could contribute to unpinning in experiments with intact hearts.


2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (8) ◽  
pp. 082403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergiy Cherepov ◽  
Pedram Khalili Amiri ◽  
Juan G. Alzate ◽  
Kin Wong ◽  
Mark Lewis ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2438-2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma Jun ◽  
Yi Ming ◽  
Li Bing-Wei ◽  
Li Yan-Long

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (9A) ◽  
pp. 6425-6428
Author(s):  
Isao Morohashi ◽  
Kazuhiro Komori ◽  
Noriaki Tsurumachi ◽  
Hisashi Shimura ◽  
Takehiko Hidaka ◽  
...  

AIP Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 085116
Author(s):  
Vincent Vangelista ◽  
Karl Amjad-Ali ◽  
Minhyeok Kwon ◽  
Paulo H. Acioli

Author(s):  
Isao Morohashi ◽  
Kazuhiro Komori ◽  
Hisashi Shimura ◽  
Takehiko Hidaka ◽  
Hirokazu Ikeda ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. DOOGHIN ◽  
B. YA. ZEL’DOVICH

Application of large amplitude asymmetric AC electric field to a photorefractive crystal and illumination by a slowly running sinosoidal interference pattern may lead to resonant recording of a running grating. The resonance corresponds to the excitation of a variant of the traps recharge wave. We propose mechanism of wave generation and analyze wave direction, amplitude, frequency in the case when the period of field oscillations is much smaller than the grating record time.


1994 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 1173-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. COULLET ◽  
F. PLAZA

A mechanical analog of the chemical and biological excitable medium is proposed. In nematic liquid crystals, the Freedericksz transition induced by a rotating tilted electric field provides a simple example of such a mechanical excitable system. We study this transition, derive a Ginzburg-Landau model for it, and show that the excitable spiral wave can be produced from a retractable finger-like soliton in this context.


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