{"id":7182,"date":"2017-05-19T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:12:03","slug":"the-heart-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart as Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MRI<\/a>
A fiber tractography visualization of a human heart. (Image courtesy of Nature Reviews Cardiology<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farhad Pashakhanloo, PhD ’16, a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Computational Medicine<\/a>, enjoys using his camera to document life as it happens.<\/p>\n

His most widely known image yet, however, wasn\u2019t captured with his Nikon D610. Instead, with the help of a clinical MRI scanner at the National Institutes of Health<\/a>, Pashakhanloo spent more than 60 hours creating an image of a human heart, which has been chosen to grace the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology<\/em><\/a> every month for the next year. (For variety and aesthetic appeal, each cover image will be in a different color scheme.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI obtained this image using what is called diffusion tensor MRI as part of my doctoral work and decided to enter it into a contest being held by the journal,\u201d says Pashakhanloo, who works in the laboratory of Natalia Trayanova<\/a>, the Murray B. Sachs Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/a>. \u201cI thought it was visually very interesting, and the journal editors obviously agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even more interesting, however, is the accomplishment the image represents: the first time, ever, that a human heart\u2019s atrial chambers\u2014the two upper chambers, which receive blood from the body and pump it to the lower chambers, the ventricles\u2014have been imaged in their entirety to reveal the orientation and arrangement of bundles of heart cells.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is important because our data will be used to create accurate computational models of patients\u2019 hearts, which we can then use to better understand sources of rhythm abnormalities, such as atrial fibrillation,\u201d says Pashakhanloo, who completed his PhD in biomedical engineering last summer. He was advised by Trayanova and Elliot McVeigh, formerly the BME chair and now at the University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farhad Pashakhanloo, PhD ’16, spent more than 60 hours creating an image of a human heart, which has been chosen to grace the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology every month for the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1362,1358,1354,1350,326,192,110],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-wse","tag-nature-reviews-cardiology","tag-atrial-chambers","tag-heart","tag-farhad-pashakhanloo","tag-biomedical-engineering","tag-natalia-trayanova","tag-institute-for-computational-medicine","issue-summer-2017"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farhad Pashakhanloo, PhD '16, spent more than 60 hours creating an image of a human heart, which has been chosen to grace the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology every month for the next year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abby Lattes\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742\"},\"headline\":\"The Heart as Art\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":307,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nature Reviews Cardiology\",\"Atrial Chambers\",\"Heart\",\"Farhad Pashakhanloo\",\"Biomedical Engineering\",\"Natalia Trayanova\",\"Institute for Computational Medicine\"],\"articleSection\":[\"At WSE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200,\"caption\":\"A fiber tractography visualization of a human heart (Image courtesy of Nature Reviews Cardiology)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/the-heart-as-art\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Heart as Art\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/\",\"name\":\"JHU Engineering Magazine\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742\",\"name\":\"Abby Lattes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Abby Lattes\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine","og_description":"Farhad Pashakhanloo, PhD '16, spent more than 60 hours creating an image of a human heart, which has been chosen to grace the cover of Nature Reviews Cardiology every month for the next year.","og_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/","og_site_name":"JHU Engineering Magazine","article_published_time":"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":200,"url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abby Lattes","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abby Lattes","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/"},"author":{"name":"Abby Lattes","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/#\/schema\/person\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742"},"headline":"The Heart as Art","datePublished":"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00","dateModified":"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/"},"wordCount":307,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg","keywords":["Nature Reviews Cardiology","Atrial Chambers","Heart","Farhad Pashakhanloo","Biomedical Engineering","Natalia Trayanova","Institute for Computational Medicine"],"articleSection":["At WSE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/","name":"The Heart as Art - JHU Engineering Magazine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg","datePublished":"2017-05-19T17:29:59+00:00","dateModified":"2017-05-22T17:12:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/#\/schema\/person\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google-Heart_THUMB.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"caption":"A fiber tractography visualization of a human heart (Image courtesy of Nature Reviews Cardiology)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/the-heart-as-art\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Heart as Art"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/#website","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/","name":"JHU Engineering Magazine","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/#\/schema\/person\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742","name":"Abby Lattes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c56cb7af5427f847aa288542444ba9ff3d2107bf85dc6c6d44a4d1315608258d?s=96&r=g","caption":"Abby Lattes"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}