For many people of different faiths, cutting up a corpse to figure out how a person died is an invasive, even offensive, procedure.
In some cases, as with Muslims and Jews, autopsies may violate their religious laws.
But technology companies are stepping in with a more acceptable alternative to traditional autopsies, using sophisticated scanning and three-dimensional computer systems.
Silicon Graphics Inc. manager Afshad Mistri demonstrated one such system on a recent morning in Mountain View, standing in front of a theater screen displaying the fuzzy image of a woman who was killed in a car accident in Sweden.
Another SGI engineer moved the cursor across the corpse, revealing the next layer, an image of the woman's skeleton clearly showing her broken bones...more here
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