Real-Time Electrical Activity of Beating Heart (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Real-Time Electrical Activity of Beating Heart

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This sequence of images, each separated by 5 milliseconds, shows changes in the electric field pattern on the surface of an embryonic chicken heart during a single beat, measured by a laser bouncing off a graphene sheet lying beneath the heart. The images are about 2 millimeters on a side.

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UC Berkeley images by Halleh Balch, Alister McGuire and Jason Horng

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