Practitioners most often photograph the patient's hand (or, less frequently, the foot), which rests on a photographic medium placed over an electrically charged metal plate.
Kirlian photography is generally said to have originated with the work of a pair of Soviet scientists, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, beginning around 1939.
Kirlian photography creates a photographic image by placing the object or body part to be photographed on film or photographic paper and exposing it to an electro-magnetic field.
Because of claims of unreliability and a lack of research data supporting its use, Kirlian photography is not recognized as a legitimate diagnostic tool by the mainstream medical community.
H. S. Dakin has written: 'High-voltage photography' -- subject(s): High-voltage photography, Kirlian photography
Since auras are shown using Kirlian photography, you might make the name some variation on that. The Kirlian Kid might work, whether the character is male or female.
It is real. See link. There may be controversy over certain interpretations of photographs made with this technique.
It has also been used for such nonmedical purposes as detecting flaws in metal and determining the viability of seeds.
They are both equal. The reference point you need is kirlian photography. I remember reading up on some very large cameras.
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was born in 1898.
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian died in 1978.
Kirlian Selections was created on 2005-04-05.
Capturing images of auras is also known as Kirlian photography. It is a form of contact print photography, The pictures are made with the object to be imaged in contact with the film itself. The process is generally discredited. Alternate aura photography includes exposing film in camera to leaked light.