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Looking Inside the Dead: The Rise of the Virtual Autopsy

October 31, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment


We’ve all been so justifiably preoccupied with former Hurricane Sandy that you may have missed a story unfolding in England this past week. So, as a distraction from the trees, traffic and sludge:

Ronald Brown, an English veteran of World War II, would quietly complain from time to time about his bad leg, the reminder of a land mine that he stepped on in August 1944 in France. Army surgeons felt it was safer to leave the mine’s fragments in his flesh than to try and fish them out, and ever after, Brown’s knee set off airport scanners and ached too much for his grandchildren to sit on it.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: imaging, MRI, SciAm, Science Blogs, world war II

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