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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 269680, 15 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/269680
Review Article

Computational Cardiology: The Heart of the Matter

Natalia A. Trayanova

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Hackerman Hall Room 216, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Received 16 August 2012; Accepted 6 September 2012

Academic Editors: T. Ohe and A. Szekely

Copyright © 2012 Natalia A. Trayanova. This is an open access paper distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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