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Re:MRI Scans of a person's brain by shpx on Sunday January 24, 2016 @09:56AM (#10962644)
You need at least 10 picometer percision to go down to the cell level (1.5L / 86 billion neurons), MRIs are 1mm according to the talk dcunit3d posted [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrSZtB0uX0

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Re:MRI Scans of a person's brain by amluto on Sunday January 24, 2016 @10:20AM (#10962714)
10 picoliter, perhaps? That's much less crazy than 10 picometer.

But you want the dendrites, too, not just cells.

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Re:MRI Scans of a person's brain by marmaduke on Sunday January 24, 2016 @02:11PM (#10963572)
Why would you want to simulate cells?
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