Military CT Scans
CT Scans are used for a variety of purposes to diagnose medical conditions. However, there is another use for these scans which the military has been using. Military officers perform "virtual autopsies" on deceased soldiers in Iraq for research purposes.
"Such records of the dead are unprecedented and have provided a plethora of data. Improvements such as increasing the length of intravenous tubing to accommodate the more robust American troops, or creating upper body armor to protect soldiers in commonly-targeted areas of the body during battle - have been made using the information garnered from such virtual autopsies" reports DotMed News.
The CT Scans are used by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2004. Although these scans are not used to help cure illness, since the soldiers have already passed, they do help pinpoint areas of the body in an x-ray that normal autopsies may have missed. These machines are being used in a variety of new ways as technology makes it easier for such scans to occur outside of a medical office.
