With the technology ruling over each sphere of our modern lives it is no wonder that it is also proving to be a source of great help to the forensic experts who with their work make the dead talk. Technology is fast replacing the manual and mental traditional methods and with the launching of igene and autopsy suites virtual autopsy/digital autopsy / autopsy imaging is indeed moving from fiction to becoming a factual reality. Though forensic radiology has been in use since the discovery of X-rays but the technique which was used to visualize and analyze the mummified remains of people who died thousands of years ago sowed the seed of digital visualization being promoted commercially as digital autopsy. In the setting of Forensic evaluation, 3D surface scanning using multislice CT technology provides excellent visualization of the body and allows re-examination of digital images of the deceased long after the actual time of death.
