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Optical mapping of cardiac excitation and arrhythmias
Sec. I. Basic principles -- Introduction : optical mapping of cardiac excitation and arrhythmias : a primer -- Optical mapping : background and historical perspective -- Mechanisms and principles of voltage-sensitive fluorescence -- Optical properties of cardiac tissue -- Optics and detectors used in optical mapping -- Optimization of temporal filtering for optical transmembrane potential signals -- Sec. II. Microscopic principles -- Introduction : unique role of optical mapping in the study of propagation and repolarization -- Optical mapping of impulse propagation within cardiomyocytes -- Optical mapping of impulse propagation between cardiomyocytes -- Role of cell-to-cell coupling, structural discontinuities, and tissue anisotropy in propagation of the electrical impulse -- Optical mapping of impulse propagation in the atrioventricular node -- Optical mapping of microscopic propagation : clinical insights and applications -- Sec. III. Cardiac arrhythmias -- Introduction : unique role of optical mapping in the study of cardiac arrhythmias -- Mapping arrhythmia substrates related to repolarization 1 : dispersion of repolarization -- Mapping arrhythmia substrates related to repolarization 2 : Cardiac wavelength -- Video imaging of cardiac fibrillation -- Video mapping of spiral waves in the heart -- Video imaging of wave propagation in a transgenic mouse model of cardiomyopathy -- Optical mapping of cardiac arrhythmias : clinical insights and applications -- Sec. IV. Cardiac defibrillation -- Introduction : unique role of optical mapping in the study of cardiac defibrillation -- Response of cardiac myocytes to electrical fields -- New perspectives in electrophysiology from the cardiac bidomain -- Mechanisms of defibrillation 1 : influence of fiber structure on tissue response to electrical stimulation -- Mechanisms of defibrillation 2 : application of laser scanning technology -- Mechanisms of defibrillation 3 : virtual electrode-induced wave fronts and phase singularities ; mechanisms of success and failure of internal defibrillation -- Optical mapping of cardiac defibrillation : clinical insights and applications.
edited by David S. Rosenbaum and José Jalife.
Includes bibliographical references and index.