Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2010-04-06
Physics
Biological Physics
22 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
We study the interplay between traveling action potentials and spatial inhomogeneities in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model to investigate possible mechanisms for the occurrence of fibrillatory states in the atria of the heart. Different dynamical patterns such as ectopic foci, localized and meandering spiral waves are found depending on the characteristics of the inhomogeneities. Their appearance in dependence of the size and strength of the inhomogeneities is quantified by phase diagrams. Furthermore it is shown that regularly paced waves in a region R, that is connected by a small bridge connection to another region L with perturbing waves emanating from an additional pacemaker, can be strongly disturbed, so that a fibrillatory state emerges in region R after a transient time interval. This finding supports conjectures that fibrillatory states in the right atrium can be induced by self-excitatory pacemakers in the left atrium.
Einax Mario
Lenk Claudia
Maass Philipp
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