Theory of Heart

1 Structure and Function of the Diastolic Heart.- 2 Structural Considerations in Formulating Material Laws for the Myocardium.- 3 Toward a Stress Analysis in the Heart.- 4 Identification of the Time-Varying Properties of the Heart.- 5 Factors Affecting the Regional Mechanics of the Diastolic Heart.- 6 Finite Element Modeling of Ventricular Mechanics.- 7 Multidimensional Measurement of Regional Strains in the Intact Heart.- 8 Epicardial Deformation From Coronary Cinéangiograms.- 9 Functional Consequences of Regional Heterogeneity in the Left Ventricle.- 10 Mathematical Modeling of the Electrical Activity of Cardiac Cells.- 11 Mathematical Models of Pacemaker Tissue in the Heart.- 12 Low-Dimensional Dynamics in the Heart.- 13 Iteration of the Human Atrioventricular (AV) Nodal Recovery Curve Predicts Many Rhythms of AV Block.- 14 Ionic Basis of the Wenckebach Phenomenon.- 15 Parasystole and the Pacemaker Problem.- 16 Electrical Propagation in Distributed Cardiac Tissue.- 17 Wave Propagation in Myocardium.- 18 Cellular Automata Models of Cardiac Conduction.- 19 Estimating the Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold.- 20 Basic Mechanisms of Ventricular Defibrillation.- 21 Mechanically Induced Changes in Electrophysiology: Implications for Arrhythmia and Theory.- 22 Nonlinear Dynamics at the Bedside.- 23 A Clinical Perspective on Theory of Heart.