About Phantom

♤ It is a method that takes a two-dimensional image of a fingerprint and maps it to a 3-D finger surface.

♤ The 3-D finger surface, complete with all the ridges and valleys that make up the human fingerprint, is made using a 3-D printer. It creates what Jain’s team called a fingerprint “phantom.”

♤ In health care, a 3-D heart or kidney can be created because the dimensions are known, they can be put into a scanner and the imaging system can be calibrated.