title: [Kirlian photography: accidental or person-specific pattern?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Is the corona electrography of Kirlian photography an accidental pattern or an individual specific discharge pattern?
  
  
  METHODS
  30 patients of the Stauferklinik Schwäbisch Gmünd, suffering from a great variety of diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  At intervals of 10-15 min 10 Kirlian photos each of all fingers and toes were taken from each patient. Out of this material, from 8 patients 4 Kirlian photos each with evident similarity of the discharge radiographs of 3 fingers were selected. These images were scanned for mathematical procedures, and heuristic measurements of the histograms were evaluated by a genetic algorithm.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three pattern groups showed different heuristic measurements: accidental pattern 0.28 +/- 0.01, Kirlian pattern in general 0.3 +/- 0.02, and Kirlian pattern of the same person 0.44 +/- 0.05.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The mathematical objectivation of the Kirlian photographs confirm the visual impression of strong similarity. Because of the lack of anatomical irregularities and since, due to new positioning, physical and chemical surface characteristics were changed in the single Kirlian photographs, the identification of the basic pattern stresses the existence of an individual discharge pattern and thus of an individual electromagnetic field.
authors.affiliation: Zentrale Radiologische Abteilung, Stauferklinik Schwäbisch Gmünd, Mutlangen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Treugut
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Köppen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nickolay
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Füss
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmid
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000379:methods*; D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; D004194:Disease; D005385:Fingers; D006801:Humans; D010781:Photography; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014034:Toes