NCFU researchers involved in studying autowaves in a cell with a magnetic fluids conclude that heart issues may be identified with computer technologies.

Autowaves are a special type of self-sustaining nonlinear waves containing magnetic nanoparticles, while their properties change under an impact from electric and magnetic fields.

Autowave processes in the human body, for example, in the heart, and in an electrochemical cell with a magnetic liquid are known to be described with the same nonlinear differential equations. Biological media, of course, are much more complex than physical ones, yet due to the similarity of autowaves propagation principles, magnetic fluids can be used as a simplified model for predicting cardiac pathologies.

The experiments into the issue are extremely complicated and costly, and a special research laboratory has been established now in the Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, NCFU. The project shall be done jointly with experts from RheinMain University (Germany) and Kuban State University (Russia). The research is planned to be completed within 1-2 years depending on funding. Application to the Russian Research Foundation has been submitted.