Animated Movies of the Human Heart

To view animated movies of the human heart, click a link below. These clips are courtesy David M. McQueen.

In order to view these clips, please take a moment to download the free QuickTime plug-in for your browser (unless you already have it). Go to www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ and follow the directions on the screen. If you already have the plug-in, the clips will load and play automatically when you click each link.

• A surface rendering of the beating model heart
  
  
• A cutaway view showing the flow patterns in the interior of the model heart
  
  
• The fiber architecture of the model heart

More animated movies and related scientific papers are located at http://math.nyu.edu/AML/heart.html.

Many other animated movie clips of the heart are located at http://www.psc.edu/science/Peskin/Peskin.html.

Visit http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html for an exploration of the human heart from the Franklin Institute.

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