The human heart muscle portrays itself electrically on the body surface, and this way it reveals the organization plan of the electrical, the anatomic, and the dynamic formation of one single heartbeat. This electric portrait of the human heart represents an “electrical painting” of the cardiac musculature in detail. It is comparable to a painter's portrait of a human face which reveals and describes the eyes, the mouth, the nose and the ears and their characteristics. To come to this surprising result, studies in electrophysics and a detailed knowledge of the cardiac muscle's anatomical fiber systems were prerequisites, as well as the development and application of special measuring methods and techniques.
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