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  1. Assessment of wall stresses and mechanical heart power in the left ventricle: Finite element modeling versus Laplace analysis

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank, Dr Leonid Goubergrits

  2. Personalized Computational Modeling of Left Atrial Geometry and Transmural Myofiber Architecture

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  3. A Work Flow to Build and Validate Patient Specific Left Atrium Electrophysiology Models from Catheter Measurements

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  4. Efficient computation of electrograms and ECGs in human whole heart simulations using a reaction-eikonal model

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  5. Highly trabeculated structure of the human endocardium underlies asymmetrical response to low-energy monophasic shocks

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gernot Plank

  6. Stochastic spontaneous calcium release events and sodium channelopathies promote ventricular arrhythmias

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gernot Plank

  7. Anatomically accurate high resolution modeling of human whole heart electromechanics: A strongly scalable algebraic multigrid solver method for nonlinear deformation

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  8. The relative role of patient physiology and device optimisation in cardiac resynchronisation therapy: A computational modelling study

    Article • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  9. Image-Based Personalization of Cardiac Anatomy for Coupled Electromechanical Modeling

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  10. PDE constrained optimization of electrical defibrillation in a 3D ventricular slice geometry

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  11. Application of optimal control to the cardiac defibrillation problem using a physiological model of cellular dynamics

    Article • Applied Numerical Mathematics, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  12. Local Gradients in Electrotonic Loading Modulate the Local Effective Refractory Period: Implications for Arrhythmogenesis in the Infarct Border Zone

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  13. Beneficial Effect on Cardiac Resynchronization From Left Ventricular Endocardial Pacing Is Mediated by Early Access to High Conduction Velocity Tissue

    Article • Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Gernot Plank

  14. Mechanisms underlying the formation of an irregular heartbeat

    Article • Cardiovascular Research, May 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Professor Gernot Plank, Fernando Campos

  15. Biophotonic Modelling of Cardiac Optical Imaging

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  16. An Efficient Finite Element Approach for Modeling Fibrotic Clefts in the Heart

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  17. Effects of Regional Mitochondrial Depolarization on Electrical Propagation: Implications for Arrhythmogenesis

    Article • Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Gernot Plank

  18. On boundary stimulation and optimal boundary control of the bidomain equations

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  19. Electroanatomical Characterization of Atrial Microfibrosis in a Histologically Detailed Computer Model

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  20. Modeling the dispersion in electromechanically coupled myocardium

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  21. Tachycardia in Post-Infarction Hearts: Insights from 3D Image-Based Ventricular Models

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

    Professor Gernot Plank

  22. Parametrization strategies for matching activation sequences in models of ventricular electrophysiology - Withdrawn

    Article • July 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  23. Mechanistic Inquiry into the Role of Tissue Remodeling in Fibrotic Lesions in Human Atrial Fibrillation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  24. The functional role of electrophysiological heterogeneity in the rabbit ventricle during rapid pacing and arrhythmias

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, February 2013, American Physiological Society

    Professor Gernot Plank

  25. Tissue Structure and Ca2+-Mediated Ectopic Beats

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Gernot Plank

  26. Simulating the Mechanics of Myocardial Tissue Using Strongly Scalable Parallel Algorithms

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Gernot Plank

  27. Methodology for patient-specific modeling of atrial fibrosis as a substrate for atrial fibrillation

    Article • Journal of Electrocardiology, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  28. Analyses of the Redistribution of Work following Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy in a Patient Specific Model

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Pablo Lamata, Professor Gernot Plank

  29. Spongious Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Patients With Mutations in the Four-and-a-Half LIM Domain 1 Gene

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics, August 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Gernot Plank

  30. The role of fine‐scale anatomical structure in the dynamics of reentry in computational models of the rabbit ventricles

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  31. Accelerating Cardiac Bidomain Simulations Using Graphics Processing Units

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  32. Three-dimensional mechanisms of increased vulnerability to electric shocks in myocardial infarction: Altered virtual electrode polarizations and conduction delay in the peri-infarct zone

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  33. Optimal control approach to termination of re-entry waves in cardiac electrophysiology

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Biology, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  34. A Novel Rule-Based Algorithm for Assigning Myocardial Fiber Orientation to Computational Heart Models

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  35. Subject specific, image based analysis and modeling in patients with atrial fibrillation from MRI

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  36. Integration of different cardiac electrophysiological models into a single simulation pipeline

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  37. Influence of ischemic core muscle fibers on surface depolarization potentials in superfused cardiac tissue preparations: a simulation study

    Article • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  38. Correction

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  39. Decomposition of fractionated local electrograms using an analytic signal model based on sigmoid functions

    Article • Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Gernot Plank

  40. Algebraic Multigrid Solver on Clusters of CPUs and GPUs

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  41. Investigating the Role of the Coronary Vasculature in the Mechanisms of Defibrillation

    Article • Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, December 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Gernot Plank

  42. Cardiac Bidomain Bath-Loading Effects during Arrhythmias: Interaction with Anatomical Heterogeneity

    Article • Biophysical Journal, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  43. A Coupled Model for the Left Ventricle Including Regional Differences in Structure

    Article • PAMM, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  44. Biophysical Modeling to Simulate the Response to Multisite Left Ventricular Stimulation Using a Quadripolar Pacing Lead

    Article • Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Anoop Kumar Shetty, Professor Gernot Plank

  45. Verification of cardiac tissue electrophysiology simulators using an N-version benchmark

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, October 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Gernot Plank

  46. Inter-model consistency and complementarity: Learning from ex-vivo imaging and electrophysiological data towards an integrated understanding of cardiac physiology

    Article • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank, Prof Alejandro F Frangi

  47. Bidomain ECG Simulations Using an Augmented Monodomain Model for the Cardiac Source

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, August 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  48. A finite element approach for modeling micro-structural discontinuities in the heart

    Article • August 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  49. The Role of Photon Scattering in Voltage-Calcium Fluorescent Recordings of Ventricular Fibrillation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  50. Estimation of Local Orientations in Fibrous Structures With Applications to the Purkinje System

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  51. Representing Cardiac Bidomain Bath-Loading Effects by an Augmented Monodomain Approach: Application to Complex Ventricular Models

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  52. A Macro Finite-Element Formulation for Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulations Using Hybrid Unstructured Grids

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  53. Simulating Human Cardiac Electrophysiology on Clinical Time-Scales

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Gernot Plank

  54. Modeling Defibrillation of the Heart: Approaches and Insights

    Article • IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  55. Modeling Atrial Fiber Orientation in Patient-Specific Geometries: A Semi-automatic Rule-Based Approach

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  56. Accelerating cardiac excitation spread simulations using graphics processing units

    Article • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, December 2010, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  57. Length-dependent tension in the failing heart and the efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy

    Article • Cardiovascular Research, October 2010, European Society of Cardiology

    Professor Gernot Plank

  58. Modeling the Role of the Coronary Vasculature During External Field Stimulation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, October 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  59. A 2D-computer model of atrial tissue based on histographs describes the electro-anatomical impact of microstructure on endocardiac potentials and electric near-fields

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  60. Image‐based models of cardiac structure in health and disease

    Article • WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  61. Generic Conduction Parameters for Predicting Activation Waves in Customised Cardiac Electrophysiology Models

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pablo Lamata, Professor Gernot Plank

  62. Simulations of the Electrical Activity in the Heart with Graphic Processing Units

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  63. Modeling Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Organ Level in the Peta FLOPS Computing Age

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gernot Plank

  64. A Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Solver on Graphics Processing Units

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  65. Arrhythmogenic mechanisms of the Purkinje system during electric shocks: A modeling study

    Article • Heart Rhythm, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  66. Numerical solutions for optimal control of monodomain equations

    Article • PAMM, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  67. Development of an anatomically detailed MRI-derived rabbit ventricular model and assessment of its impact on simulations of electrophysiological function

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, November 2009, American Physiological Society

    Professor Gernot Plank

  68. Purkinje-mediated Effects in the Response of Quiescent Ventricles to Defibrillation Shocks

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  69. Solving the Coupled System Improves Computational Efficiency of the Bidomain Equations

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, October 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  70. Near-real-time simulations of biolelectric activity in small mammalian hearts using graphical processing units

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  71. Numerical solution for optimal control of the reaction-diffusion equations in cardiac electrophysiology

    Article • Computational Optimization and Applications, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  72. Estimation of multimodal orientation distribution functions from cardiac MRI for tracking Purkinje fibers through branchings

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  73. Generation of histo-anatomically representative models of the individual heart: tools and application

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, May 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Gernot Plank

  74. Automatically Generated, Anatomically Accurate Meshes for Cardiac Electrophysiology Problems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, May 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  75. Towards predictive modelling of the electrophysiology of the heart

    Article • Experimental Physiology, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  76. Image-based models of cardiac structure with applications in arrhythmia and defibrillation studies

    Article • Journal of Electrocardiology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  77. Low Energy Defibrillation in Human Cardiac Tissue: A Simulation Study

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  78. The Role of Blood Vessels in Rabbit Propagation Dynamics and Cardiac Arrhythmias

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  79. Comparison of Rule-Based and DTMRI-Derived Fibre Architecture in a Whole Rat Ventricular Computational Model

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  80. Macroconduction and microconduction during rapid pacing measured with cardiac near field technique

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  81. From mitochondrial ion channels to arrhythmias in the heart: computational techniques to bridge the spatio-temporal scales

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Gernot Plank

  82. Feedback control of resonant drift as a tool for low voltage defibrillation

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  83. Role of Purkinje system in cardiac arrhythmias

    Article • August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  84. Nonlinear filtering for extracting orientation and tracing tubular structures in 2-D medical images

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  85. Modeling the influence of the VV delay for CRT on the electrical activation patterns in absence of conduction through the AV node

    Article • March 2008, SPIE

    Professor Gernot Plank

  86. Assessing influence of conductivity in heart modelling with the aim of studying cardiovascular diseases

    Article • March 2008, SPIE

    Professor Gernot Plank

  87. Evaluating Intramural Virtual Electrodes in the Myocardial Wedge Preparation: Simulations of Experimental Conditions

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  88. Solvers for the cardiac bidomain equations

    Article • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  89. High Performance Computer Simulations of Cardiac Electrical Function Based on High Resolution MRI Datasets

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  90. A Finite Element Formulation for Atrial Tissue Monolayer

    Article • Methods of Information in Medicine, January 2008, Schattauer GmbH

    Professor Gernot Plank

  91. Oblique Propagation of Activation Allows the Detection of Uncoupling Microstructures from Cardiac Near Field Behavior

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  92. Arrhythmogenesis Research: A Perspective from Computational Electrophysiology Viewpoint

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  93. Accuracy of Local Conduction Velocity Determination from Non-Fractionated Cardiac Activation Signals

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  94. A Hilbert-order multiplication scheme for unstructured sparse matrices

    Article • International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gernot Plank

  95. Reduced-Order Preconditioning for Bidomain Simulations

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, May 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  96. Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioner for the Cardiac Bidomain Model

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  97. AN ITERATIVE METHOD FOR REGISTRATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION CARDIAC HISTOANATOMICAL AND MRI IMAGES

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  98. What have we learned from mathematical models of defibrillation and postshock arrhythmogenesis? Application of bidomain simulations

    Article • Heart Rhythm, October 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  99. Three-Dimensional Models of Individual Cardiac Histoanatomy: Tools and Challenges

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, October 2006, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  100. Accelerating Large Cardiac Bidomain Simulations by Arnoldi Preconditioning

    Article • August 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  101. A new floating sensor array to detect electric near fields of beating heart preparations

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  102. P5-22

    Article • Heart Rhythm, May 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  103. P1-14

    Article • Heart Rhythm, May 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  104. Defibrillation Depends on Conductivity Fluctuations and the Degree of Disorganization in Reentry Patterns

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, February 2005, Wiley

    Professor Gernot Plank

  105. Parallel Multigrid Preconditioner for the Cardiac Bidomain Model

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, November 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Gernot Plank

  106. The Shock Energy Required for Successful Defibrillation Depends on the Degree of Disorganization of the Reentrant Activation Pattern

    Article • Cardiovascular Engineering An International Journal, June 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  107. Computational tools for modeling electrical activity in cardiac tissue

    Article • Journal of Electrocardiology, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Gernot Plank

  108. Cardiac Near-Field Morphology During Conduction Around a Microscopic Obstacle—A Computer Simulation Study

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, November 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  109. Use of Cardiac Electric Near-Field Measurements to Determine Activation Times

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, October 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  110. Spatially restricted data distributions on the sphere: the method of orthonormalized functions and applications

    Article • Journal of Geodesy, May 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank

  111. Model Study of Vector-Loop Morphology During Electrical Mapping of Microscopic Conduction in Cardiac Tissue

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, October 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gernot Plank