Simple method for measuring heart vector of isolated animal hearts.
The spatial dipole moment of a perfused animal heart suspended at the center of a fluid-filled sphere can be found in magnitude and direction to a good approximation by three sets of bipolar measurements. The method has been applied in finding the vectorcardiograms of turtle and rabbit hearts.
D000818:Animals; D006321:Heart; D011817:Rabbits; D014672:Vectorcardiography
VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY/experimental