Cardiophysics is an interdisciplinary

science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

that stands at the junction of

cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular h ...

and

medical physics Medical physics deals with the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases with a specific goal of improving human health and well-being. Since 2008, medical physics has been incl ...

, with researchers using the methods of, and theories from,

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

to study cardiovascular system at different levels of its organisation, from the molecular scale to whole organisms. Being formed historically as part of systems biology, ''cardiophysics'' designed to reveal connections between the physical mechanisms, underlying the organization of the cardiovascular system, and biological features of its functioning. Zbigniew R. Struzik seems to be a first author who used the term in a scientific publication in 2004. One can use interchangeably also the terms ''cardiovascular physics''.

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* Bioelectric Information Processing Laboratory of th
Institute for Information Transmission Problems
RAS. * The Group of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology in the Laboratory of Physiology of emotion
Research Institute of normal physiology by Anokhin
RAMS
Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group
led many years already by Prof.

Denis Noble Denis Noble (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Ph ...

Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology group
of National Heart & Lung Institute of

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

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Group of Nonlinear Dynamics & Cardiovascular Physics
of the 1st Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the Institute of Physics of

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

{{Branches of physics Medical physics * Applied and interdisciplinary physics

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