by Caroline Haskins
Dec 14 2018, 11:45am
‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
Marie—a five-foot-one, fifteen-pound 3D printed body—could be used to help create better radiation treatments for
Meet Marie, the very first life-sized 3D-printed human body made from bioplastic, developed by LSU engineering student Meagan Moore to test real-time radiation exposure and figure out optimal radiation therapy dosing for treating conditions like cancer.
According to an LSU press release, Marie is five-foot-one-inch tall and weighs 15 pounds. She also has a detachable head, and a 36-gallon water storage capacity for up to eight hours.
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Also, Marie is also a lovely shade of purple. (“Purple was on sale,†Moore said in a press release.)
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