ABSTRACT
Computer modeling and simulation continue to become more important in the field of bioengineering. This chapter provides an overview of numerical techniques that can be applied to a class of bioelectric field problems. It describes some general modeling techniques that will be applicable, in part, to all the aforementioned applications. The chapter focuses on a class of bioelectric volume conductor problems that arise in electrocardiography and electroencephalography. The choice of the optimal solver is complicated by the size of the system versus access to computational resources. SCIRun provides a software platform, upon which other applications can be rapidly constructed. The dataflow network controls the execution and synchronization of the modules that comprise the application, but the generic user interface windows are replaced with entries that are placed in the context of a single application-specific interface window.
