A model of cardiac tissue as an excitable medium with two interacting pacemakers having refractory time
Volume 63 / 2003
Banach Center Publications 63 (2003), 231-241
MSC: Primary 92B05; Secondary 37E10
DOI: 10.4064/bc63-0-11
Abstract
A quite general model of the nonlinear interaction of two impulse systems describing some types of cardiac arrhythmias is developed. Taking into account a refractory time the phase locking phenomena are investigated. Effects of the tongue splitting and their interweaving in the parametric space are found. The results obtained allow us to predict the behavior of excitable systems with two pacemakers depending on the type and intensity of their interaction and the initial phase.
