Monthly Archives: November 2009
CardioSolv’s CARP Simulator in the News
“Medical science is increasingly turning to computational models to study the possible effects of drugs and surgical interventions, before moving on to patient trials. One active area of research is in heart modelling. The structure of a patient’s heart can … Continue reading
Save an animal – run a simulation
Perhaps you’ve heard about the passionate protests opposing animal research (and the counter-protests supporting it). Whether you’re opposed to animal research altogether, want to minimize it to avoid it as much as possible, or just want to avoid the cost … Continue reading
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Solution of the ODEs and PDEs involved in cardiac simulation is actually rather straightforward, and it’s been implemented over and over by many groups around the world. Even in my former lab, we used four different implementations during the course … Continue reading
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Using simulations to make errors faster
The title of this blog post may seem to poke fun at simulations, but it’s based on a story recounted in a blog post entitled Simulation: Fact or Fantasy?. In it, Joel Orr describes a NASA engineer’s outrage at his … Continue reading
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Academic Beta Testers Sought for Cardiac Simulation VM
We’re developing a self-contained virtual machine image (using Sun’s VirtualBox platform) that will allow you to run an entire CardioSolv Simulation Manager, simulator, and model visualization tools (Meshalyzer) on your machine, just by loading it up in VirtualBox. We are … Continue reading
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Cardiac Simulation – Cellular (ionic) Models
This is the second post in a series of posts about the hows and whys of cardiac simulation, both electrophysiological and mechanical. The first and previous post was Conceptual Background. In this post, I’ll catalog the ionic models and plug-ins … Continue reading
Termination of Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Using Trains of Low-Voltage Field Stimuli
Brock Tice, VP of Operations at CardioSolv, gave a talk on the titled topic at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate seminar on October 19th, 2009. He covered some electrophysiology basics, then gave an overview of his … Continue reading