From UTHealth Special Surgery Center, Houston, TX

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“There are 24 cameras in this machine, it’s like being around the paparazzi, and the bulbs just go pop, pop pop and flash and it generates 2 million data points of measurements that then get transmitted to the computer so you see different measurements of the body in inches like bust waist hips thighs. It gives you a print-out so you can see along the different ways how your weight is changing and it even trends it for you to help identify that. And you can see that the gray image is the starting weight and the flesh tone is the current. This does provide inspiration and motivation to the patients because even if they don’t feel like they’re losing weight, they can see it,” UTHealth Dietitian Carol Wolin-Riklin said.

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The 3D White Light Scanner is usually just offered to UTHealth patients, but the Specialty Surgery Center will be offering the service to non-patients for $100 a session.

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