Background Links for Rob's Courses

Links to the Courses

• Bioengineering 6000, Systems Physiology I
• Bioengineering 6469, Bioelectricity and Electrophysiology
• Bioengineering 6003, Cellular Electrophysiology and Biophysics

Miscellaneous Logistical Information

• College of Engineering Course Guidelines
• Directions to the CVRTI: If you are on campus, use the campus map or the high resolution mapquest map. Coming from off campus, use the coarser resolution Mapquest map of the area. For more maps visit Mapquest.
• Matlab Links

Information on Writing

Additional Books

General Physiology

• Eckert Animal Physiology book website with lots of useful links and resources.
• Human Physiology: in Integrated Approach by Silverthorn
• Physiology, 4th ed. by Berne, R.M. and Levy, M.N. Mosby, 1998.
• Textbook of Medical Physiology by Guyton and Hall

Cardiovascular Physiology

• Cardiovascular Physiology (Fourth Edition) by David E. Mohrman and Lois Jane Heller.
• Physiology and Pharmacology of the Heart by Hilary Brown and Roland Kozlowski. Blackwell Science, 1997.
• Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival by Frances M. Ashcroft, available from Barnes and Noble.
• Cardiovascular Physiology Concepts a web site to go with the text book of the same name by Richard Klabunde.

Bioelectricity and Modeling

• Bioelectricity and Biomagnetism, Vol. 1 by Ramesh M. Gulrajani. (expensive but the best reference book for the course and this material)
• Bioelectric Phenomena by Robert Plonsey (the predecessor to our text with much more detail in computational components and volume conductor problems. A classic no longer in print but available through used bookstores, e.g., Amazon.com)
• Bioelectromagnetism by Jaakko Malmivuo and Robert Plonsey. No longer in print but available directly from the web. Also part of the Bioelectromagnetism Portal that Prof. Malmivuo hosts.
• Mathematical Physiology by James Keener and James Sneyd. Springer Verlag. (great all around book on modeling and simulation in physiology)

Cardiology and Medicine

• King of Hearts by G. Wayne Miller. A great story, albeit poorly written, about Walt Lillehei.
• Partners of the Heart by Vivian Thomas. An autobiography of Vivian Thomas, the African American assistant to Alfred Blalock and the inspiration for the outstanding film "Something the Lord Made".
• Every Second Counts by Donald McRae. The story of the race to the first human heart transplant. It does not get more exciting that this!
• Journey into the Heart by David Monagan. This covers the life and untimely death of Andreas Gruentzig, the inventor of PTCA, but also includes a fabulous introduction to the heart days of cardiac catheterization.
• Wisdom of the Body by Sherwin Nuland. This is a more general book about physiology, with some exciting clinical stories to make it read like a thriller.

Cardiovascular/Respiration/Renal Physiology Resources

• The Wellcome Trust heart atlas a delightful and very artistic view of the heart with background information on an incredible collection of images.
• e-heart Web site, a very comprehensive site of images and description of diseases of the heart and vascular syste, created by Carmela D. Tan, M.D, and E Rene Rodriguez, M.D.
• National Geographic article from February 2007 on the heart and heart therapy.
• CV disease statistics from the American Heart Association.
• Encyclopedia of cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Utah.
• Elephant breathing and lots of other elephant related information. Learn what is unique about the way elephants breath!
• Molecular mechanisms of osmosis by F. Kiil from Am. J. Physiology. An article on the mechanisms of osmosis.
• Encyclopedia of cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Utah.
• Respiratory physiology by Dr. David Penny.
• BioCoach from Prentice Hall
• Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy from the University of Minnesota.
• Heart Disease Resource Guide from the Pacific Online ACLS Course.
• Kid's guide to the CV system (from the same ACLS site).

Bioelectricity and Electrophysiology Resources

• The Virtual Heart, a web site with interactive animations of the heart, especially electrophysiology.
• Essentials of Human Physiology. See especially the section on Membrane Transport and Bioelectric Activity
• Summary of the mechanisms of Class I and Class III antiarrhythmic drugs from Vidal Essebag at McGill University.
• Heart cycle animation . This animation requires the Shockwave Flash plugin, and you can download the player plug-in from www.macromedia.com/software/flash.
• Tutorial on ischemic heart disease

ECG Resources

• ECG's: The ECG Library Homepage , including the History of Electrocardiography by Dean Jenkins.
• Tutorial guide to Reading ECGs from New York University Medical School
• ECG basics and analysis from the University of Utah.

Heart Illnesses

• Atrial fibrillation tutorial
• Another AF tutorial
• Yet another AF tutorial this one focused on patient experiences.
• Heart Disease Resource Guide from the Pacific Online ACLS Course.

Images, Photos, Anatomy

• Cardiac morphology project at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
• IMAIOS E-atlas, an amazing interactive online anatomy site with slices through the body in all directions.
• Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging. This is a very nice set of images of the thorax the the heart itself. Some highlights include
  • whole heart images
  • coronary radiograph
• Book: Atlas of Human Anatomy from Elsevier Health by Netter.

Biomedical Signal Processing Links

• A biomedical signal processing course at Northeastern University and run by Dana Brooks.

Simulations and Animations

• The Virtual Heart, a very cool web based visualization of heart rhythms.
• Simulation of diffusion.
• Cardiac simulation web site, a comprehensive listing of information.
• CESLab a program for simulation of cardiac propagation using cellular automata, available for both Windoze platform and for the Max/OSX . The original home of this project seems to have disappeared but downloads are available.
• Interactive model of squid axon by Semahat Demir. Part of her iCell Modeling Software
• Simulation of a beating heart from Charles Peskin and David McQueen.
• FitzHugh-Naguma model of activation by Flavio Fenton.

Odds and Sods

• Rob's links page to other research related groups and sources.
• Hibernation physiology and how it applies to humans.
• The Young Mans' Book of Amusement full of weird and wonderful experiments.
• Richard Felder's home page Resources in Science and Engineering Education.

Organizations and Societies

• American Heart Association