The body of a dead woman was digitized for the sake of science
Last reviewed: 26.12.2018
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Scientists have divided the body of a dead woman into 5,000 parts for the sake of the future of science and medicine.
The body of the woman was donated for research by her husband, also it is known that the woman died in 1995 from a heart attack, and the body was subjected to a certain preparation before becoming "digital".
Experts divided the body of a woman into 5 thousand pieces and transferred them to digital format, resulting in a detailed image of the human body (the digital version was called "phantom rights").
It should be noted that a similar process was already conducted by scientists with a male body (a robber and murderer from Texas, Joseph Paul Jernigan, who was executed in 1993 and bequeathed his body to science), which was cut into pieces with a thickness of just 1mm. Almost all specialists are sure that medicine and science have only benefited from such experiments.
Studies with the body of a woman are held in Massachusetts (Worcester Institute), and a team of scientists emphasize that it is the female example that has allowed to establish more details. Thanks to the digital version of the "woman", scientists will be able to better study human tissues, from the head to the toes. In addition, the husband of the deceased woman transferred to the disposal of experts the results of computer and magnetic resonance imaging and other studies that took place in the last weeks of her life.
According to experts, the digital version of the human body will allow carrying out experiments that can not be performed with the participation of living people (in view of the high risk to the health and life of participants).
Before the dissection, the scientists withstood the body of a woman in a special mixture of gelatin and water. Sergei Makarov, professor of a private institute in the city of Worcester, was the lead specialist, who noted that this project has already allowed to correct inaccuracies in anatomical study aids, for example, the location of the bladder and the shape of the muscle in the pelvic region.
Now experts create a complete digital version of the human body, including 213 parts, including. Eyeballs, trachea, while all parts of the body will be manageable.
Sergey Makarov explained that he and his team had already started experimenting with the digital version of the woman. During the experiment, scientists tried to find out what would happen to a person who has metal prostheses (hip and hip implants), during magnetic resonance imaging (the scanner has the ability to heat metal).
Such an approach will allow specialists to develop safer research methods for people with different metal implants, and also to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer, to learn how the long-term use of the mobile phone (using electromagnetic radiation) affects the brain.
"Phantom Rights", according to experts, will allow studying the tissues of the human body, without the need to conduct experiments on living people who are not only long and expensive, but also contradict certain moral standards.