Researchers led by Jean-Jacques Chaillout at France's Atomic Energy Commission found that a 25-micrometer-thick strip of piezoelectric material (the diameter of a thin strand of .
They take a photograph of the scene, then move certain figures a micrometer, then take another picture.
A computer program creates a three-dimensional model of the envisioned structure and divides it into layers of up to 1 micrometer, or one thousandth of a millimeter.
Human brain cut into 7,400 slices, then reconstructed digitally in 3-D LONDON — Scientists have finely sliced a human brain into 7,400 wafer-thin sheets and then digitally reconstructed it to create the world's most detailed map of the brain in three dimensions.The so-called "Big Brain" project, which took a 65-year-old woman's brain and cut it into slices just 20 micrometers thick, shows the brain's anatomy in microscopic detail, almost down to a cellular level ...
June 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
What Does Human Brain Mapping Actually Tell Us? Google “brain” right now and you’ll find a mountain of news stories on a development known as the BigBrain project, which came out just yesterday: Researchers in Europe and Canada have just mapped the human brain with a precision that's so strikingly detailed, that it's unprecedented in humans – and it's in 3D. The team has devised a way to cut the brain into 20 micrometer-thick sections – far ...
June 21, 2013 - Forbes
Zoe Lofgren in San Francisco Chronicle He's got an amiable demeanor, and some people mistake that for being reasonable,Lofgren said. "He isn't. He is not a micrometer away from whatever the Republican leadership wants him to do."