Brad Roth·May 29James Keener (1946–2026)James Keener died in April. He was a biomathematician who worked at the University of Utah. In Chapter 10 of Intermediate Physics for…
Brad Roth·Aug 29, 2025Approximate Analytical Solutions of the Bidomain Equations for Electrical Stimulation of Cardiac…Russ Hobbie and I stress qualitative thinking, in addition to quantitative thinking, in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology…
Brad Roth·Aug 22, 2025The Cardiac Bidomain Model in Twelve PublicationsRecently I wrote a review of the bidomain model of cardiac tissue. Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model in Section 7.9 of…
Brad Roth·Aug 9, 2024A Comparison of Two Models for Calculating the Electrical Potential in Skeletal MuscleToday I want to tell you how Frans Gielen and I wrote the paper “ A Comparison of Two Models for Calculating the Electrical Potential in…
Brad Roth·Jul 19, 2024Happy Birthday, Robert Plonsey!Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of Robert Plonsey’s birth. He is one of the most highly cited authors in Intermediate Physics for…
Brad Roth·Apr 21, 2023The Magnetic Field Associated with a Plane Wave Front Propagating Through Cardiac TissueWhen I was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, my student Marcella Woods and I examined the magnetic field produced by electrical…
Brad Roth·Apr 23, 2021Electric and Magnetic Fields From Two-Dimensional Anisotropic BisyncytiaFigure 8.18 on page 223 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains a plot of the magnetic field produced by action currents…
SciDoc Publishers·Nov 4, 2016Expression of Tropomyosin 2 Gene Isoforms in Human cardiac TissuePrevious studies have shown that although the transcript levels of TPM1α and TPM1κ are expressed in human hearts in comparable levels, the…
