[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":158},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":10,"coverAlt":134,"coverCaption":135,"coverCredit":136,"coverImage":137,"date":138,"description":139,"draft":140,"extension":141,"hero":142,"license":143,"meta":144,"metaDescription":145,"navigation":146,"path":147,"reading":148,"seo":149,"stem":150,"summary":151,"tags":152,"updated":145,"__hash__":157},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg.md","Every OpenTwin starts with a body scan: the BodyLoop arrived",[7],{"name":8,"role":9},"Robin Wilkening","Open Science Institute",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":127},"minimark",[13,25,42,47,50,53,69,90,94,97,100,104,107,120],[14,15,16,17,24],"p",{},"On 10 July 2026 we finished setting up the\n",[18,19,23],"a",{"href":20,"rel":21},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vitronic.com\u002Fen-us\u002F3d-bodyscan\u002Fscanner-for-performance-diagnostics",[22],"nofollow","Vitronic BodyLoop","\nscanner at the OpenTwin project. This important step changes what OpenTwin is,\nbecause until now we have been working with data about bodies, but now we can\nmeasure one.",[26,27,28,29,28,38],"figure",{},"\n  ",[30,31],"img",{"src":32,"alt":33,"width":34,"height":35,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg\u002Fbodyloop-in-arch.jpg","A person standing inside the BodyLoop arch during a scan, sensors and projectors lining the inner face of the arch.",970,1200,"lazy","async",[39,40,41],"figcaption",{},"Inside the arch 32 sensors and 16 projectors scan the whole body in 0.3 seconds · Vitronic",[43,44,46],"h2",{"id":45},"what-it-does","What it does",[14,48,49],{},"You step onto the mat with no preparation beyond taking your shoes off and\nstand still. Thirty-two auto-calibrated sensors and sixteen projectors capture\nthe surface of the body from every side, taking 0.3 seconds.",[14,51,52],{},"The surface comes back at 25 points per square centimetre, and the machine\nneeds roughly two minutes to process it. The software then does the tedious\npart. It places anatomical landmarks on the surface automatically and works\nout distances, heights, circumferences, angles and volumes, along with a\nposture analysis. Two scans can even be laid over one another, which means you\ncan follow the same person over time rather than describing them only once.",[26,54,28,55,28,61,28,66],{},[30,56],{"src":57,"alt":58,"width":59,"height":60,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg\u002Fbodyloop-point-cloud.jpg","A raw point cloud of a standing person captured by the scanner, arms slightly out from the body.",704,1036,[30,62],{"src":63,"alt":64,"width":65,"height":35,"loading":36,"decoding":37},"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg\u002Fbodyloop-3d-preview.jpg","A front-view body scan output showing a person's silhouette with circumference measurements labelled at the neck, chest, waist, hips, arms and legs, each in centimetres.",718,[39,67,68],{},"From raw capture to numbers: the point cloud the sensors return, and the anthropometry the software calculates.",[14,70,71,72,77,78,83,84,89],{},"Vitronic's 3D photonic scanning is the gold standard for anthropometry in\nepidemiological research, used across cohorts to produce high-quality\nlongitudinal body scans: the Swiss conscript cohorts at the University of\nZurich, where scans were\n",[18,73,76],{"href":74,"rel":75},"https:\u002F\u002Fpeerj.com\u002Farticles\u002F2980\u002F",[22],"validated against manual anthropometry"," and\nthen used to\n",[18,79,82],{"href":80,"rel":81},"https:\u002F\u002Fjournals.plos.org\u002Fplosone\u002Farticle?id=10.1371\u002Fjournal.pone.0234552",[22],"predict fat and muscle mass",";\nthe ",[18,85,88],{"href":86,"rel":87},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fsrep26672",[22],"LIFE-Adult study"," in Leipzig,\nwhich tested the reliability of 3D laser-based anthropometry against classical\nmeasurement.",[43,91,93],{"id":92},"why-this-matters-for-a-digital-twin","Why this matters for a digital twin",[14,95,96],{},"In most human twins built so far, that top layer is the weakest one. Anatomy\nusually gets in as a population average, a BMI number, or a clinical scan taken\nyears ago. What we have now instead is a real measurement of a real person on\na known date. Preventive medicine has wanted signals like these for years, but\nthe measurements were usually too expensive or too invasive to repeat often\nenough to catch them.",[14,98,99],{},"But there is another reason, and it matters to us more than it might sound. A\nscan of your own body is something you can look at and recognise. That is the\ndifference between a dummy twin and a highly personal twin that is run on you.\nIt gives the twin ground truth, so a model predicting how a body will change\ncan be checked against how it actually changed.",[43,101,103],{"id":102},"what-comes-next","What comes next",[14,105,106],{},"Protocol first, data second. We are working out a scan procedure we can\nreliably repeat, and we want to know how much the measurement wobbles on its\nown before we start attributing any of that to biology. Alongside it come the\nunglamorous questions: how scans get stored and versioned, how they connect to\nthe rest of the twin, and how consent and governance work, written into the\npipeline rather than bolted on afterwards.",[14,108,109,110,114,115,119],{},"The argument for that openness is set out at length in our chapter ",[111,112,113],"em",{},"Building an\nOpen Twin Ecosystem",", in the forthcoming Open Access volume\n",[18,116,118],{"href":117},"\u002Fnews\u002Fdigital-twins-book-all-chapters-in\u002F","Digital Twins in Medicine",".",[14,121,122,123,119],{},"More about the ",[18,124,126],{"href":125},"\u002Fresearch\u002F","OpenTwin project",{"title":128,"searchDepth":129,"depth":129,"links":130},"",2,[131,132,133],{"id":45,"depth":129,"text":46},{"id":92,"depth":129,"text":93},{"id":102,"depth":129,"text":103},"The BodyLoop scanner room: a white sensor arch on a floor mat beside a desk with the operator workstation.","The BodyLoop scanner, installed and running at the OpenTwin site in Freiburg, 10 July 2026.","Open Science Foundation","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg\u002Fbodyloop-installed.jpg","2026-07-10","On 10 July 2026 we finished setting up the\nVitronic BodyLoop\nscanner at the OpenTwin project. This important step changes what OpenTwin is,\nbecause until now we have been working with data about bodies, but now we can\nmeasure one.",false,"md","letter","CC BY 4.0",{},null,true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg","4 min",{"title":5,"description":139},"news\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg","A 360° scan in 0.3 seconds, 32 sensors, no radiation. The Vitronic BodyLoop body scanner is now running at Medical Me in Freiburg, OpenTwin's partner site, and it gives the project its first physical measurement layer.",[153,154,155,156],"OpenTwin","Digital Twins","Open Health","Open Hardware","ERouJmj-w_RP3_Bk4hdSXKmG6jHf4t-nM91-dXWgDzU",1788809659737]