Abstract
In an attempt to separate fact from opinion, only unretouched color photographs of normal hearts or drawings made from the tracings of these photographs are used. If the photographs are to have direct clinical application, two objectives are deemed essential:
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To fix a heart in a manner which reproduces its living appearance—the one seen daily in the operating room and in diagnostic studies. The technique used to accomplish this objective is termed perfusion fixation.
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To photograph the heart in a manner which not only portrays this appearance but does so in a manner which simulates the radiographic examination of the heart in a patient—radiographic simulation.
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McAlpine, W.A. (1975). Technique. In: Heart and Coronary Arteries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65983-6_1
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