ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Phil and Anthony Butler work on an arm scanner at MARS' Christchurch laboratory. Supplied A 3-D image of Phil Butler's wrist taken by the MARS scanner in 2018. The company is part owned by University of Canterbury – where it is based – and has close ties to Otago Medical School. The primary difference between the MARS scanner and other techniques is the level of detailed information it can record. Dean Mouhtaropoulos The MARS scanner was inspired by technology used at CERN, the World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory.

Source: Stuff December 27, 2019 18:22 UTC