Drift of Scroll Wave Filaments in an Anisotropic Model of the Left Ventricle of the Human Heart

Figure 5

Final position of the filament for the spherical and normal LV shape in the case of positive filament tension (). The blue line shows the results of simulations for initial scroll location at the centre of the LV and the red line for the initial location close to the apex. The -axis shows the apical thickness , the -axis is the coordinate. The LV base has , the apex has . Different lines styles correspond to different anisotropy ratios.

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