It can be used to detect cancers including those of the lung, colon, head and neck, and gives consultants a detailed threedimensional scan of the affected areas of the body.
Nowadays, hybrid movies that merge live action with computer animation to produce three-dimensional digital maps of their real-life actors' body movements include lots of fine-grained information about expression.
But Naughton figured out a way to fool the cells into thinking they were in the body by suspending the cells on a three-dimensional net made of suture material.
The Radio Plasma Imager instrument provides a three-dimensional view of the plasmasphere by sounding it with radio pulses, like an ultrasound image of the human body.