Table 3. Measurements of conduction velocity and refractory period of atrial muscle and AVN from the cellular automaton model and experiment.
Atrial muscle | Inferior nodal extension | Transitional zone | Penetrating bundle | ||
Conduction velocity (m/s) | simulation | 0.27–0.55 | 0.05–0.114 | 0.154 | 0.104 |
experiment | 0.3–0.8 [81] | 0.02–0.1 [82] | 0.35±0.17 [70] | 0.1–0.15 | |
Refractory period (ms) | simulation | 81 | 94 | 134 | 154 |
experiment | 68±11 [92] 81±5 [39] | 91±10 [93] 91±12 [39] 100±9 [94] | 127±9 [39] 141±15 [93] | _ |