At the University of Medical Sciences in Montpellier, France, researchers are using 3D scanners to create "virtual corpses," hoping to solve the worldwide shortage of corpses.
The body has been in a state of high demand for a long time, but the shortage has worsened in recent years. According to reports, the number of medical projects is increasing, so demand is increasing. At the same time, supply is decreasing. Donations are still taboo in some parts of the world, and the ideal body - young, usually healthy, intact, is hard to find.
According to Guillaume Captier, a surgeon and professor at Montpellier, the researchers hope that the virtual corpse will teach students the basics of anatomy. Once they have gained more experience, they can develop into real things.
For this project, the team created two virtual anatomies: one for the neck and one for the pelvis. For everyone, he will dissect the real carcasses from the skin to the muscles to the arteries, eight layers in total. At each level, technicians using the Artec 3D scanner to scan each layer of the body part of the scan take a few minutes, and each anatomy takes a total of one day to complete.
Next, they plan to create anatomical scans of the thighs and hands, and they hope to prepare 5 scans for students before the end of 2018.
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