A medical examiner puts on a pair of augmented-reality goggles and brings up a computer simulated image of a body that appears to hover steps away. Nearby on a metal autopsy table lies the body of a person brought into the lab after a fatal shooting. Instead of cutting into the victim, the examiner slices through the 3-D image, mapping the bullet’s trajectory and determining the cause of death without making a single incision. This is one vision of the virtual future of autopsies, based on interviews with forensic and digital...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 30, 2020 16:52 UTC