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the corpse inside this body bag may be
the victim of a
crime it's what police suspect but have
no way to prove that's the job of Dr
Anders person and his
team they're about to perform an
autopsy but this is no ordinary cut open
the cadaver job
in Sweden's Center for Medical image
science and
visualization this man is about to be
sliced up in a virtual
autopsy it begins inside this CT
scanner it's like an x-ray on
steroids regular x-rays scan just the
outline of
bones but CT scans use a rotating
x-ray it takes 12 images per
second creating cross-sectional slices
of bone thinner than a
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dime these image slices are stacked side
by side forming a stunning picture of a
body
skeleton Dr person's team also scans the
body through an MRI to search for
evidence of damage to
organs MRIs create a map of the body's
tissue slice by
slice using powerful magnets and pulsing
radio
waves the victim is never removed from
the body
bag with the click of a mouse the
covering can be made invisible to get a
virtual Peak inside