Exploring heart dissection techniques for enhancing anatomical education: a pilot study to replicate transthoracic echocardiography.

Purpose: For novice learners, converting two-dimensional (2D) images of echocardiography to three-dimensional (3D) cardiac structures is deemed challenging. This study aimed to develop an accurate dissection method of the heart to reproduce the transthoracic echocardiographic views on cadavers and elucidate new educational methods in human anatomy dissection courses.

Methods: A total of 18 hearts were used in this study.