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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng. 2013 Jun 24;29(10):1104–1133. doi: 10.1002/cnm.2565

Table II.

Electro-mechanical material parameters of human cardiac tissue.

electrical parameters

isotropic conduction septum diso = 5 mm2/ms [23]
anisotropic conduction septum dani = 10mm2/ms [23]
isotropic conduction diso = 0.1mm2/ms [23]
anisotropic conduction dani = 0.2mm2/ms [23]

mechanical parameters

isotropic bulk κ = 100 kPa
isotropic myocardium a = 0.496 kPa, b = 7.209 [25]
anisotropic myocardium aff = 15.193 kPa, bff = 20.417 [25]
ass = 3.283 kPa, bss = 11.176 [25]
afs = 0.662 kPa, bfs = 9.466 [25]

electro-mechanical parameters

saturation of contraction η = 12.5 kPa/μM [23]
resting calcium concentration cCarest=0.05μM [76]
critical calcium concentration
cCacrit=0.8μM
minimum activation ε0 = 0.1/ms [23]
maximum activation ε = 1.0/ms [23]
transition rate ξ = 4.00/μM [23]