The project, conducted in partnership with the US-based technology giant Google and Janelia Research Campus, conducted the most comprehensive brain scan to date.
According to the report in The Verge, a relatively small scale group of neurons can be mapped extensively with this method.
The project includes detailed mapping for more than 25 thousand neurons in about a third of a fruit fly's brain, containing more than 20 million synapses.
Contrary to conventional methods, the team used to slice the brains of flies into 20-micron-thick layers and bombard each layer with electron bombing, then used the data to produce a 3D image consisting of trillions of 3D pixels.
According to the statement, the team had been working for 2 years to implement this project.