"The idea of working from 3-D information to 3-D construction is one of the key areas of research, working from body scan data and then linking that up to a knitting machine, " says Black.

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"If it (the hamstring) had torn, I'd have been in big trouble and I feared it would be worse news from the scan, " she said.

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