Utilizing the eikonal relationship in strategies for reentrant wave termination in excitable media

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 May;81(5 Pt 2):056202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056202. Epub 2010 May 12.

Abstract

Obstacle-anchored vortices can be terminated by the application of high-frequency wave trains in excitable media. We theoretically derived the dependency between the obstacle radius and the maximum unpinning period through reinterpretation of the well-known eikonal equation. Our theoretical result was confirmed by experiments with cardiomyocyte monolayers. This result may be useful for improving the stimulation protocol of implantable cardiac pacemakers.