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Journal of Electrocardiology

The tentacles of the octopus hold a heart and representative demographic, anthropomorphic, and electrophysiologic variables that challenge the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in nature. The drawing by Jan Hakac was inspired by the manuscript by Sumche Man et al. on pages 154–160 of this issue.

March-April 2012 (Vol. 45, Issue 2)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The similarity of overlapped geometry-meshed maps (Fig 2-right) in the article by Kongstad et al. (pg 51) and this NASA image of the traffic intensity of International Geostationary Earth Orbits as portrayed by Simon Meij.

January-February 2012 (Vol. 45, Issue 1)

Journal of Electrocardiology

Ljuba Bacharova's Bird of Paradise flies from the gardens of the Hayes Mansion in San Jose (site of ISCE 2011) beside the body surface maps and over the inverse solution derived epicardial maps of inferior ischemia by Horacek et al from the ISCE 2011 Symposium.

September/October 2011 (Vol. 44, Issue 6)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The Maas River in the painting by British artist Sarah Spruce flows near the site of the MALT 2011 Meetings that provided the topics of the MALT Symposium in this issue.

September/October 2011 (Vol. 44, Issue 5)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The Giant's Causeway, as painted by Maastricht artist Sarah Spruce, that led to the 10th STAFF Meeting in Partrush Northern Ireland, introduces the STAFF minisymposium edited by Dewar Finlay on pages 401-463.

July/August 2011 (Vol. 44, Issue 4)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The large white flower in the center of Nina Hakacova's artistic bouquet provides color contrast to the black scintigraphic perfusion defect in the manuscript of van Hellemond et al (pages 370-376).

May 2011 (Vol. 44, Issue 3)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The colors and shapes of the Albuerque Old Town skyline in the painting from ISCE 2010 by David Hampton reflect the evolution of the spatial distributions of myocardial transmembrane potentials in "Models of Stretch-activated Ventricular Arrhythmias" from the Pre-Conference Tutorial by Trayanova et al (pages 479 –485).

November 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 6)

Journal of Electrocardiology

Ria Bjerregaard's artistic rendition of atrial and ventricular fibrillation superimposed on the ECG from the 17 year old girl, who was the proband of the first family reported with Short QT Syndrome.

September 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 5)

Journal of Electrocardiology

The Spatial QRS - T Angle presented in Figure 1 of D.L. Cortez, T.T. Schlegel (p. 304) is represented on the frontal, transverse, and saggital surfaces of a sundial in Genk, Belgium by Simon Meij.

July 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 4)

Journal of Electrocardiology

Celebrating the 50 years of the evolution of the International Society of Electrocardiology. Red dots on this global map by Ljuba Bacharova show the sites of the Congresses, and the editorial on page 194 by Stefan Nelwan and Ljuba Bacharova introduces the creation of digital archives of the Congress Proceedings.

May 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 3)

Journal of Electrocardiology

"Heart tree" .... a symbol of our scientific family with its amazing network of relationships nurtured across international and generational borders.

March 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 2)

Journal of Electrocardiology

"A map of the ventricular activation that produces the ripples to create the surface ECG" - created by Simon Meij representing Yilmaz, et al: pages 56–62.

January 2010 (Vol. 43, Issue 1)