''A Swiss lab has developed a way of establishing how someone died without damaging the evidence.''
A team of Swiss doctors is conducting about 100 autopsies a year without cutting open bodies, instead using devices including an optical 3D scanner that can detect up to 80 per cent of the causes of death.
Michael Thali, a professor at the University of Berne, and his colleagues have developed a system called "virtopsy", which since 2006 has been used to examine all sudden deaths or those of unnatural causes in the Swiss capital.
The US military at Dover Air Force Base is using a more limited version for autopsies on soldiers, he said.
"Without opening the body we can detect 60 to 80 per cent of the injuries and causes of death," Thali explained, standing beside the white cylindrical CT scanner in his laboratory.
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