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Introducing your digital twin…

WHAT IS A DIGITAL TWIN?

It’s a three-dimensional digital model of something. It isn’t new, actually. In manufacturing, having a digital twin of, say, an aeroplane engine lets you tweak the design and see how it affects the model. The human body is different. It’s more that we’re tracking what’s changing in a digital twin across all these different biomarkers of your body, and identifying the progression of disease much earlier. So it’s more of a diagnostic.

HOW DOES THE SCANNER WORK?

The core physics that it uses is magnetic resonance,

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