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Pathways for depolarization in the heart wall tend to follow the principal muscle fibre pathways that imbricate gently through the wall in a figure of eight (1,2,3). Each pathway is remarkably close to a geodesic, as described by Clairaut’s theorem (4). All pathways in the LV wall lie in nested sets of toroidal shells that are crescentic in longitudinal section (5, 6).
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Streeter, D.D., Ross, M.A. (1980). LV Wall Fibre Pathways for Impulse Propagation. In: Baan, J., Arntzenius, A.C., Yellin, E.L. (eds) Cardiac Dynamics. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8796-8_11
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