Joakim Sundnes Glenn Terje Lines Xing Cai
Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen Kent-Andre Mardal
Aslak Tveito

2006

The heart is a fantastic machine; during a normal lifetime it beats about 2.5 billion times and pumps 200.000 tons of blood through an enormous system of vessels extending 160.000 kilometres throughout the body. For centuries, man has tried to understand how the heart works, but there remain many unsolved problems, problems that have captured the attention of thousands of researchers worldwide.