FIGURE 1.

Specimen staging. (a) Plastinated heart suspended via the cut lumina of the aortic arch branches with additional inferior stabilisation. (b) Plastinated liver suspended with haemostats, wood and thread. The suspension line is indicated with black arrows. (c) Posterior view of the suspended specimen with full lighting. The small bowel has been dissected, but not suspended, and was not included in the image capture. (d) Posterior view of a fixed, wet stomach suspended using steel wire which is hidden in the rugal folds (red arrows). Sutures have been placed to secure the wire within the superior part of the duodenum (black arrow). (e) demonstrates vertical suspension of the right lung, white arrowheads indicate placement of suspension lines. (f) demonstrates horizontal suspension of the left lung with suspension lines (black arrows), which was found to be a more stable configuration. (g) brain position during capture of inferior structures. (h) brain position during capture of superior structures. (i) Suspended plastinated thorax (left posterior oblique view). White arrows indicate suspension points.