Imperial College Researchers Win BHF Reflections of Research Competition

Using data from cutting-edge scans, Dr Philip Kilner and Dr Michael Markl have produced a movie showing how blood flows in a healthy human heart.

A movie produced by Dr Philip Kilner and Dr Michael Markl (University of Freiburg) has won the video category of the British Heart Foundation's 2010 Reflections of Research competition. This science image competition gives BHF-funded scientists a chance to show their artistic side by sending in their most striking research images. 

Drs Kilner and Markl produced their video, entitled Blood Streams of the Heart using data from cutting-edge scans, showing how blood flows in a healthy human heart. The blood streams are shown in slow motion and gradually rotated, coloured according to where the blood has come from. Blues show flow through the right side of the heart towards the lungs. Yellow and red show flow through the left heart, from the lungs to the body.