Estimating the Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold

The Geometry of Biological Time

1980 • 3,627 citations

Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside

1991 • 2,234 citations

Reconstruction of the action potential of ventricular myocardial fibres

1977 • 1,418 citations

A computer model of atrial fibrillation

1964 • 1,343 citations

Electrophysiology of the Heart.

1960 • 1,295 citations

Spiral Waves of Chemical Activity

1972 • 1,200 citations

Oscillations and Traveling Waves in Chemical Systems

1985 • 1,126 citations

The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

1965 • 1,092 citations

Circus movement in rabbit atrial muscle as a mechanism of tachycardia. III. The "leading circle" concept: a new model of circus movement in cardiac tissue without the involvement of an anatomical obstacle.

1977 • 1,069 citations

Electrophysiological mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias resulting from myocardial ischemia and infarction

1989 • 995 citations

Nonuniform Recovery of Excitability in Ventricular Muscle

1964 • 939 citations

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

1985 • 937 citations

Diffusion in Embryogenesis

1970 • 895 citations

Diffusion and Heat Exchange in Chemical Kinetics

1955 • 835 citations

Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside

1991 • 794 citations

Singular perturbation theory of traveling waves in excitable media (a review)

1988 • 739 citations

The discontinuous nature of propagation in normal canine cardiac muscle. Evidence for recurrent discontinuities of intracellular resistance that affect the membrane currents.

1981 • 726 citations

Oscillations and traveling waves in chemical systems

1986 • 701 citations

Circus movement in rabbit atrial muscle as a mechanism of trachycardia.

1973 • 689 citations

Propagation and Its Failure in Coupled Systems of Discrete Excitable Cells

1987 • 589 citations

Electrophysiology of the heart

1961 • 549 citations

Influences of anisotropic tissue structure on reentrant circuits in the epicardial border zone of subacute canine infarcts.

1988 • 513 citations

Biological Engineering

1970 • 502 citations

Nagumo's equation

1970 • 492 citations

The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

1890 • 470 citations

Target patterns in a realistic model of the Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction

1980 • 458 citations

Clinical experience, complications, and survival in 70 patients with the automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator.

1985 • 452 citations

Resistivity of Body Tissues at Low Frequencies

1963 • 448 citations

Temporal dispersion of recovery of excitability in atrium and ventricle as a function of heart rate

1966 • 393 citations

Adenosine 3′,5′-Monophosphate Waves in Dictyostelium discoideum : a Demonstration by Isotope Dilution—Fluorography

1981 • 393 citations

Stimulus-induced critical point. Mechanism for electrical initiation of reentry in normal canine myocardium.

1989 • 389 citations

Spiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

1986 • 351 citations

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Survival of Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias

1988 • 342 citations

Simulation of Wave Processes in Excitable Media

1988 • 312 citations

Electrical instability in cardiac muscle: Phase singularities and rotors

1989 • 307 citations

The electrophysics of a nerve fiber

1975 • 302 citations

Biological and Biochemical Oscillators

1973 • 293 citations

Mechanism of ventricular vulnerability to single premature stimuli in open-chest dogs.

1988 • 287 citations

The automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: An overview

1985 • 273 citations

A Cellular Automaton Model of Excitable Media Including Curvature and Dispersion

1990 • 268 citations

A Geometrical Theory for Spiral Waves in Excitable Media

1986 • 266 citations

Comparison of the defibrillation threshold and the upper limit of ventricular vulnerability.

1986 • 254 citations

When Time Breaks Down: The Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Electrochemical Waves and Cardiac Arrhythmias

1988 • 252 citations

Chemical vortex dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction and in the two-variable oregonator model

1989 • 248 citations

Effect of tissue anisotropy on extracellular potential fields in canine myocardium in situ.

1982 • 242 citations

EXCITABILITY OF THE HEART

1957 • 235 citations

The kinetics of mechanical activation in frog muscle

1969 • 227 citations

The relationship between successful defibrillation and delivered energy in open-chest dogs: Reappraisal of the “defibrillation threshold” concept

1987 • 220 citations

When time breaks down. The three-dimensional dynamics of electrochemical waves and cardiac arrhythmias

1988 • 211 citations

Coronary and precoronary care

1969 • 204 citations

The effect of diameter on the electrical constants of frog skeletal muscle fibres

1972 • 203 citations

A model study of the effects of the discrete cellular structure on electrical propagation in cardiac tissue.

1987 • 201 citations

Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems

1987 • 197 citations

Refractory Period of the Dog's Ventricular Myocardium Following Sudden Changes in Frequency

1969 • 188 citations

Endocardial mapping of ventricular tachycardia in the intact human ventricle: Evidence for reentrant mechanisms

1988 • 187 citations

Ventricular vulnerability during acute coronary occlusion

1969 • 174 citations

Cellular uncoupling can unmask dispersion of action potential duration in ventricular myocardium. A computer modeling study.

1989 • 172 citations

Interaction of inhomogeneities of repolarization with anisotropic propagation in dog atria. A mechanism for both preventing and initiating reentry.

1989 • 169 citations

Sudden Cardiac Death: A Problem in Topology

1983 • 166 citations

Initiation of the propagated disturbance

1937 • 158 citations

Simple finite-element model accounts for wide range of cardiac dysrhythmias.

1984 • 155 citations

Perturbation analysis of an approximation to the Hodgkin-Huxley theory

1975 • 152 citations

THE EFFECTS OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA ON THE FIBRILLATION THRESHOLD—THE MECHANISM OF SPONTANEOUS VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION FOLLOWING CORONARY OCCLUSION

1940 • 151 citations

Mechanism of cardiac defibrillation in open-chest dogs with unipolar DC-coupled simultaneous activation and shock potential recordings.

1990 • 151 citations

Intramural reentry as a mechanism of ventricular tachycardia during evolving canine myocardial infarction.

1985 • 149 citations

Vulnerability to ventricular fibrillation during acute coronary arterial occlusion and release

1975 • 146 citations

Fibrillation Threshold of Premature Ventricular Responses

1966 • 144 citations

Comparison of the defibrillation threshold and the upper limit of ventricular vulnerability.

1986 • 142 citations

Spiral waves of cyclic amp in a model of slime mold aggregation

1989 • 140 citations

A cellular automaton model of excitable media

1990 • 140 citations

Interaction of rotating waves in an active chemical medium

1983 • 139 citations

Repetitive extrasystole as an index of vulnerability to ventricular fibrillation

1976 • 137 citations

The potential gradient field created by epicardial defibrillation electrodes in dogs.

1986 • 136 citations

Influence of shock strength and timing on induction of ventricular arrhythmias in dogs

1988 • 135 citations

Cardiac potential and potential gradient fields generated by single, combined, and sequential shocks during ventricular defibrillation.

1992 • 135 citations

Transmural activations and stimulus potentials in three-dimensional anisotropic canine myocardium.

1988 • 130 citations

Cyclic AMP waves during aggregation of Dictyostelium amoebae

1989 • 119 citations

ANALYSIS OF THE INITIATION OF FIBRILLATION BY ELECTROGRAPHIC STUDIES

1941 • 118 citations

Curvature and Propagation Velocity of Chemical Waves

1988 • 117 citations

Stable Particle-Like Solutions to the Nonlinear Wave Equations of Three-Dimensional Excitable Media

1990 • 117 citations

Maps of optical action potentials and NADH fluorescence in intact working hearts

1987 • 115 citations

Electrophysiological basis for arrhythmias caused by acute ischemiaRole of the subendocardium

1986 • 107 citations

Reconstruction of propagated electrical activity with a two-dimensional model of anisotropic heart muscle.

1986 • 104 citations

Two-dimensional spectrophotometry of spiral wave propagation in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

1987 • 103 citations

Defibrillation Threshold: A Simple and Quantitative Estimate of the Ability to Defibrillate

1987 • 100 citations

An analysis of the cable properties of frog ventricular myocardium.

1978 • 100 citations

Frequency-dependent effects of quinidine on the relationship between action potential duration and refractoriness in the canine heart in situ.

1988 • 97 citations

Extracellular field required for excitation in three-dimensional anisotropic canine myocardium.

1988 • 96 citations

Endocardial mapping by simultaneous recording of endocardial electrograms during cardiac surgery for ventricular aneurysm

1983 • 96 citations

The Excitability Cycle of the Dog's Left Ventricle Determined by Anodal, Cathodal, and Bipolar Stimulation

1956 • 96 citations

Dispersion of traveling waves in the belousov-zhabotinskii reaction

1988 • 95 citations

Multiple regional differences in cellular properties that regulate repolarization and contraction in the right atrium of adult and newborn dogs.

1989 • 93 citations

Nucleation in systems with multiple stationary states

1974 • 89 citations

Cell to cell signalling : from experiments to theoretical models

1989 • 84 citations

The cardiac ventricular defibrillation threshold: inherent limitations in its application and interpretation.

1987 • 84 citations

Intramural resistivity of cardiac tissue

1979 • 84 citations

Propagation through electrically coupled cells. Effects of a resistive barrier

1984 • 80 citations

The study of ventricular fibrillation by threshold determinations

1957 • 79 citations

Local Potential Gradients as a Unifying Measure for Thresholds of Stimulation, Standstill, Tachyarrhythmia and Fibrillation Appearing After Strong Capacitor Discharges1

2015 • 75 citations

Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold

1975 • 74 citations

Luther's 1906 discovery and analysis of chemical waves

1987 • 72 citations

Mathematical approaches to cardiac arrhythmias.

1990 • 72 citations

Initiation of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias in a canine model of chronic myocardial infarction: importance of the site of stimulation.

1981 • 72 citations

Critical size and curvature of wave formation in an excitable chemical medium

1989 • 71 citations

QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF THE FIBRILLATION THRESHOLDS OF THE MAMMALIAN VENTRICLES WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFECT OF PROCAINE

1940 • 70 citations

An energy-time analysis of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation thresholds with internal electrodes

1976 • 69 citations

Alternative stable rotors in an excitable medium

1991 • 69 citations

Cumulative effects of cycle length on refractory periods of cardiac tissues

1969 • 67 citations

Helical organizing centers in excitable media

1990 • 67 citations

A model of chronic ischemic arrhythmias: The relation between electrically inducible ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation threshold and myocardial infarct size

1982 • 67 citations

Ventricular fibrillation threshold

1961 • 66 citations

Stable three-dimensional action potential circulation in the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model

1990 • 62 citations

Stably Rotating Patterns of Reaction and Diffusion

1978 • 62 citations

Multiple regional differences in cellular properties that regulate repolarization and contraction in the right atrium of adult and newborn dogs.

1989 • 61 citations

EXCITABILITY OF THE MAMMALIAN VENTRICLE THROUGHOUT THE CARDIAC CYCLE

1950 • 61 citations

Anisotropic conduction properties of canine ventricular muscles. Influence of high extracellular K+ concentration and stimulation frequency.

1985 • 59 citations

Two-dimensional spectrophotometry of spiral wave propagation in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

1987 • 57 citations

Interaction of sequential stimuli applied during the relative refractory period in relation to determination of fibrillation threshold in the canine ventricle.

1975 • 54 citations

The effect of chemical ablation of the endocardium on ventricular fibrillation threshold.

1986 • 53 citations

Simulated propagation of cardiac action potentials

1980 • 52 citations

Nonlinear dynamics in cardiac conduction

1988 • 50 citations

Analysis of meandering in Zykov kinetics

1989 • 49 citations

Single Fiber Recording of the Ventricular Response to Induced Hypothermia in the Anesthetized Dog

1959 • 47 citations

Interruption of T waves by premature QRS complexes and the relationship of this phenomenon to ventricular fibrillation

1962 • 46 citations

Interaction of fiber orientation and direction of impulse propagation with anatomic barriers in anisotropic canine myocardium.

1988 • 46 citations

Vortex Action Potentials in Normal Ventricular Muscle^a

1990 • 45 citations

Effects of cellular geometry on current flow during a propagated action potential

1980 • 39 citations

Continuous fractionated electrical activity after stimulation of the ventricles during the vulnerable period: Evidence for local reentry

1980 • 36 citations

Velocity of trigger waves and temperature dependence of autowave processes in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

1985 • 36 citations

Current density and electrically induced ventricular fibrillation.

1973 • 36 citations

Safety Factor for Precordial Pacing: Minimum Current Thresholds for Pacing and for Ventricular Fibrillation by Vulnerable‐period Stimulation

1984 • 35 citations

Current distribution from defibrillation electrodes in a homogeneous torso model

1969 • 33 citations

Activation Patterns During Ventricular Fibrillation^a

1990 • 33 citations

FACTORS DETERMINING THE PRODUCTION OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION BY DIRECT CURRENTS (WITH A NOTE ON CHRONAXIE)

1940 • 32 citations

COMPARISON OF THE VULNERABLE PERIODS AND FIBRILLATION THRESHOLDS OF NORMAL AND IDIOVENTRICULAR BEATS

1941 • 31 citations

[Instabilities of autowaves in excitable media associated with critical curvature phenomena].

1983 • 31 citations

The relationship between the repetitive extrasystole threshold and the ventricular fibrillation threshold in the dog. Non-parallel changes following pharmacological intervention.

1980 • 30 citations

Regular and chaotic behaviour of cardiac cells stimulated at frequencies between 2 and 20 Hz

1989 • 30 citations

Beta-adrenergic-mediated influences on microscopic conduction in epicardial regions overlying infarcted myocardium.

1990 • 28 citations

Simulation analysis of excitation conduction in the heart: Propagation of excitation in different tissues

1986 • 28 citations

Norepinephrine release by ventricular stimulation: effect on fibrillation thresholds

1980 • 28 citations

Influence of test site on ventricular fibrillation threshold

1977 • 23 citations

A mathematical model for the vulnerable phase in myocardium

1988 • 23 citations

Strength-duration curves for cardiac pacemaking and ventricular fibrillation.

1977 • 22 citations

The Effects of Gap Junctions on Propagation in Myocardium: A Modified Cable Theory^a

1990 • 21 citations

VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION COMPLICATING ELECTRICAL PACEMAKING: A COMPARISON OF DIRECT CURRENT AND RADIO-FREQUENCY CARDIAC PACEMAKER STIMULATION.

1963 • 21 citations

Discrete spectrum of rotor periods in an excitable medium

1990 • 19 citations

Electrophysiology of Spiral Waves in Two Dimensions: The Role of Anisotropy

1990 • 18 citations

Relation of the endocardial and epicardial ventricular fibrillation thresholds of the right and left ventricles

1981 • 18 citations

The repetitive extrasystole as an index of vulnerability to ventricular fibrillation during myocardial ischemia in the canine heart

1983 • 17 citations

Stable vortex rings of excitation in neuroelectric media

1988 • 16 citations

Effects of tissue geometry on initiation of a cardiac action potential

1989 • 16 citations

Vortex rings in excitable media

1987 • 16 citations

A plausible mechanism for the motion of untwisted scroll rings in excitable media

1988 • 16 citations

Integral Methods in Science and Engineering

2007 • 14 citations

The apparent repetition frequency of ventricular fibrillation

1982 • 11 citations

Anisotropic conduction and ventricular tachycardia

1988 • 10 citations

Anisotropic conduction and ventricular tachycardia

1988 • 9 citations

Surface effects in the gas-phase oxidation of carbon monoxide

1987 • 9 citations

Causes of Propagation Failure in Excitable Media

1987 • 8 citations

Effect of ventricular aberrancy on fibrillation threshold

1975 • 7 citations

Computer simulation of anisotropic impulse propagation: Characteristics of action potentials during re-entrant arrhythmias

1989 • 2 citations

Importance of the shock electric field for defibrillation efficacy

1988 • 2 citations

A two-dimensional model of electrical waves in the heart

1990 • 2 citations

The role of anisotropic impulse propagation in ventricular tachycardia

1989 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations