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Biomedical research has traditionally used two types of experimental techniques—in vivo experiments performed on living organisms and in vitro studies performed on tissue samples. A third technique called in silico experiments is emerging. As the name suggests, these experiments are performed on a computer, that is, in silicon. In this paper we will present a project that studies the heart using in silico experiments.
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Lines, G.T., Sundnes, J. (2010). Computer Simulations of the Heart. In: Tveito, A., Bruaset, A., Lysne, O. (eds) Simula Research Laboratory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6_20
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