The Visual Heart
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The contracting three-dimensional heart on the left can be rotated, zoomed, and panned by clicking and moving the mouse as indicated in the image below.


The heart is a powerful muscle that pumps blood throughout the body by means of a coordinated contraction. The contraction is generated by an electrical activation, which is spread by a wave of bioelectricity that propagates in a coordinated manner throughout the heart.

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Created by: Flavio H. Fenton Ph.D., Marc S. Kraus DVM, Dipl. ACVIM (Cardiology) and Elizabeth M. Cherry Ph.D.
This website includes reserch founded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Under grants: 0824399 (NSF), 0800793 (NSF), 0320865 (NSF), HL075515-S03,-S04 (NIH) and 5F32HL73604-2 (NIH).