Forensic Magazine® columnist, Chris Asplen, remembers a colleague and a friend, Pedro Aragonez, the Director of Forensic Services in Chihuahua, Mexico who was gunned down last month.
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Advanced imaging tools such as MDCT are being used more and more in forensic medicine, sometimes beyond morgue walls.
It may be too soon for a television series titled CSI: Radiology, but advanced imaging devices like multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scanners are already accelerating changes in forensic medical science.
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