Inside Look At A Beating Silicon Heart

Dr. Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerized the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He’d been using math models to research the heart his entire career, but now Dassault Systèmes, a French design and simulation software company, had created a complete, three-dimensional view of the electrical impulses and muscle-fiber contractions that enable the human heart to perform its magic.

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