Effects of Spatial Segmentation in the Continuous Model of Excitation Propagation in Cardiac Muscle

Spatial Segmentation in the Simulation of Propagation. Introduction: Spatial segmentation is essential for the numerical simulation of excitation propagation in cardiac muscle.

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