The advent of latest high-definition body scanner, can aid in providing a better view of the human anatomy thus offering help for heart attacks.

The HD body scanner, is an offering from GE Healthcare, offers pictures of diseased arteries in the heart and at same time locate ailments at an early stage, long before patients experience it, claim doctors at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.

Professor of Radiology Carl Roobottom said, "When we started doing the heart research in 2002, we used to struggle to see the blood vessels, let alone see the narrowings within them," Sky News reports.

This development means one now has technique which can help see dentures within a fraction of millimeters. It was further added that in five seconds, the scanner takes 220 X-rays, each of them offers a cross-section of the heart which in turn is converted into a 3D images.

The scanner has been certified safe for patients with radiations 20 to 30 times lower than earlier used machines.