Findings from University of Oxford provide new insights into biomedical engineering.(Report)

"Computing the numerical solution of the bidomain equations is widely accepted to be a significant computational challenge. In this study we extend a previously published semi-implicit numerical scheme with good stability properties that has been used to solve the bidomain equations (Whiteley, J.P. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 53:2139-2147, 2006)," scientists writing in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering report (see also Biomedical Engineering).

"A new, efficient numerical scheme is developed which utilizes the observation that the only component of the ionic current that must be calculated on a fine spatial mesh and updated frequently is the fast sodium …