Rabbit ventricles dissected and digitized by Frederick Vetter and Andrew McCulloch.

Published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 1998; 69(2-3): 157-83.

Data provided with the support of the National Biomedical Computation Resource, an NIH National Resource (P41 RR08605).

This mathematical representation of the ventricular geometry and muscle fiber was obtained by dissecting rabbit ventricles into layers 0.5 mm thick.


MOVIES:

  • Animated gif of rotating structure and fibers click here. (1.2MB)

  • Animated gif of rotating real and virtual rabbit ventricles click here. (1.3MB)

  • Simulated ventricular tachycardia in rabbit ventricles click here. (3.6MB)

  • Simulated ventricular fibrillation in rabbit ventricles click here. (2.7MB)


    Rabbit ventricular structure in 3D VRML format:

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  • Rabbit Ventricles (Solid Structure)
  • Rabbit Ventricles (Semi-transparent Structure)
  • Rabbit Ventricles (Semi-transparent Structure II)