Computer Simulations Reveal Complexity of Electrical Activity in the Human Thorax: Computation of thoracic potentials and currents will help in the detection and characterization of normal and abnormal heart function

1a Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, as well as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Mathematics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112; e‐mail: cjohnson@math.utah.edu

2a Research Associate in Internal Medicine at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute

3a Research Scientist at the Utah Supercomputing Institute and a member of the IBM Visualization Team at the University of Utah