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This exists! They’re called knife-edged scanning microscopes.


Wow thanks for the info! This was a good overview of one system https://academic.oup.com/mt/article/25/4/14/6815410 - 5um slice thickness at 0.7um per pixel and ~1 TB/cm^3, max sample size 50x50x20mm. Humans are about 75k cm^3 so a 75 PB scan isn't impossible. Probably start with a coarser scan and work on the compression algorithms. "Just" need a (much) bigger scanner. And figure out if the knife edge is okay with bones!




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