Virtual Body Of Woman Cut Into 5,000 Slices, Most Detailed Reconstruction

How can the human body be digitised? An interesting way of doing it would involve cutting the body into 5,000 slices, according to the Telegraph.

Ever since 1986, the U.S. National Library of Medicine is putting in efforts to make the human body digital, for which it is engaged in the Visible Human Project.

Hence, the group just selected a 59-year-old woman's body, after she had died of a heart attack and sliced up her body into thousands of pieces, each measuring one-third of a millimeter, according to the Mirror.

The team them scanned the images in a computer and designed the 3-D digital image of her body.

"They have ten times as much information as you'd get from an MRI scan," said Dr. Fernando Bello from the Imperial College-London. "It means the team will have much more information about organs and their structuring."

Technology has enabled the group to create smaller slices, resulting in greater detail of the pieces.

Even while the model was used at first for experiments and researchers, it is now open to the public and also for being observed online.

Hence, the woman's body is a "reconstruction of a whole human body ever to be pieced together," according to New Scientist.