Engineering in Criminal Probation. 3D Scan of the Body with the Help of Virtopsy Software

ABSTRACT: Over time, engineering has played an important role in the development of the society we have today. Technology has been and will be the science that has given mankind an increase in quality of life, strong economic growth, strong military influence, a chance at life in treating incurable diseases that threatened and threaten the population and last but not least engineering in the field of justice brought justice. The implementation of engineering in the technological modalities of forensic research through imaging and radiological diagnosis, meant an innovative solution for criminologists. Thus, for investigations where a corpse is always found at the crime scene, the forensic probation must be carefully analyzed by specialists, and it cannot be brought to a favorable result without a technology that allows this. If we look in this context at the classic methods of determining the cause and time of death, we see that once at the morgue of the IML, specialists resort to surgical means namely autopsy of the corpse by dissection and subsequent finding the result, by suturing and grooming. This classic process takes time, and for criminal investigation bodies can bring serious negative effects, such as a new crime or even the escape of the criminal. So here we can understand the need for engineering and so nowadays specialists can boast of the new Virtopsy software. This software is designed as a CT that with the help of 3D scanning of the body, can determine not only the time and cause of death, but also blunt objects possibly inside the body. Interestingly, this software, thanks to scanning, radiological diagnosis and imaging, reaches the possibility of calculating the depth of the wound, the technological properties of the knife, the knife, for example, in the case of a stabbing, the technology of bullets in the case of shooting, and many other material and technological properties of weapons or objects that caused death. Virtopsy is therefore the software that sheds light on murder cases, this software is again a living proof of the importance of engineering in this field as well.

KEYWORDS: engineering, forensic research, Virtopsy, investigations, 3D scanning, technology