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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Human Heart Modeled for Electrical Signals

A Norwegian researcher, Kirsten ten Tusscher, modeled the electrical functioning of the human heart. In one article, there was a note that the patterns are NOT as chaotic as expected. This is, no pun intended, unexpected. The human EEG has often been cited as an example of a chaotic system. To see that this may not be true would be a shock, indeed.

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