Cardiophysics is an
interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...
science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
that stands at the junction of
cardiology
Cardiology () is the study of the heart. 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 di ...
and
medical physics, with researchers using the methods of, and theories from,
physics
Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, 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 whi ...
to study
cardiovascular system
In vertebrates, the circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the body. It includes the cardiovascular system, or vascular system, that consists of the heart a ...
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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Medical physics
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Important publications in medical physics
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Biomedicine
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Biomedical engineering
Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...
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Physiome
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Nanomedicine
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External links
* Bioelectric Information Processing Laboratory of th
Institute for Information Transmission ProblemsRAS.
* The Group of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology in the Laboratory of Physiology of emotion
Research Institute of normal physiology by AnokhinRAMS
Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group led many years already by Prof.
Denis Noble
Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology group of National Heart & Lung Institute of
Imperial College London
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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
The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
{{Branches of physics
Medical physics
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Applied and interdisciplinary physics