The scanner's magnets need 22MW of electricity - enough to power a nuclear submarine.
While in the scanner, each person carried out a counting task on the computer.
Staff in South Yorkshire brought their teddies into work in March to raise money for the scanner appeal.
Observational assessments of Mr Routley since he responded in the scanner have continued to suggest he is vegetative.
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Airports in Phoenix, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Fort Lauderdale are among those that currently use the scanner.
Thinking during tasks shows up in color in cross-sectional images, recorded as the subject lies with his head inside the scanner.
Broken down to its bare bones, the scanner works by spinning an object and shooting two lasers at it.
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The laser beam in the scanner shoots a steady stream of photons, all of the same frequency, at the plastic.
The scanner also lets consumers place deli orders and check out faster.
Officers will change their route if the scanner suggests a safety issue.
It was a pleasant experience enclosed in the scanner's vast twin magnets.
According to the department around 60 patients a week use the scanner.
"If you're in a line that doesn't have full body imaging and you don't alarm the scanner, you're almost always done, " he says.
When people performed this task inside the scanner, a significantly smaller part of the brain in Brodmann's Area 37 lit up in dyslexics than non-dyslexics.
If neither the scanner nor the Telecode department can appropriately identify the offending label, the package winds its way through the system to be inspected by hand.
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The scanner does not require any expensive or confusing software and employs a new twin-roller feeding system to ensure that the photos are scanned evenly each time.
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While in the scanner she was shown responses of four other subjects to the pairs of objects before seeing them herself, then performed the mental rotation required to evaluate the images.
In a shop, where the scanner sits by the till and is supervised by a clerk, a thief could not make repeated payment attempts without raising suspicion, so false positives are unlikely.
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, cut its backlog of routine CT scans from 18 weeks to zero for lung cancer patients, by ensuring the scanner was used to full capacity.
In 2004 and 2005, the TSA at first dismissed privacy concerns, then sought to address them by placing TSA officers viewing the scanner imagery in remote locations, away from the passenger being screened.
It also currently needs to be wired to a computer to work, although NZIR says the scanner will be fully wireless by the time its ready to hit the market two years from now.
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Under new TSA guidelines, they point out, the person looking at the scanned image is in an entirely separate room, and the picture is deleted as soon as the next passenger steps into the scanner.
Because the 3D scanner does not compress the skin like a tape measure does, and the scanner also measures the small of the back, it produces waist measurements around 1.9cm larger than a tape measure.
According to the company, the scanner's equally adept at creating a detailed 3D model of a crime scene as it is of a movie set and, what's more, it can be done in only two minutes.
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During a recent test, Daniel Weissman, the neuroscientist in charge of the experiment, explained that a man lying inside the scanner would be performing different tasks, depending on the color of two numbers he sees on a screen.
The scanner itself consists of a digital camera with an on-board laser that determines the distance to the object, although it also apparently requires that targets be placed around the scene to properly scan the object -- or person, as the case may be.
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In addition to being able to scan images onto the included SD memory card, the scanner accepts other popular memory cards (SD, MS, MS Pro, MMS, XD) and can also be connected directly to either a Mac or PC computer via its mini-USB port.
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New Zealand's Industrial Research looks to be attracting quite a bit of interest in its prototype handheld 3D scanner, snagging fellow New Zealanders Weta Digital to help put the technology through its paces and now hoping the police will hop on board to put the scanner to more grisly uses.
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On the police scanner in the aftermath of the attack, first responders discussed grounding a helicopter because it needed to refuel.
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