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Van Herpen, Gerard (2014). "Professor Herman Burger (1893-1965), eminent teacher and scientist, who laid the theoretical foundations of vectorcardiography – and electrocardiography".
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a triangle of points for electrical measurement which formed an asymmetric triangle, the so-called Burger's triangle, which departed from the previous idea of
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and medical physics. A system of positioning of electrodes for electrocardiography is known as Burger's triangle.
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