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By request of C2RMF, researchers from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) traveled to Paris to scan the Mona with its sophisticated 3D laser scanner. NRC's 3D scanner - capable of scanning 3D images at a depth resolution of 10 micro-meters, or about 1/10 the diameter of a human hair - has provided a number of unique views of the portrait that will assist curators and conservators in their ongoing studies of the 500-year-old masterpiece. "The 3D scan of the Mona Lisa has not only helped to further our understanding of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling, but will also help to address the conservation and deterioration concerns we have," said Henri Loyrette, Director of the Musee du Louvre which commissioned the study.