Development of Swiss specialists in forensic medical examination may lead to that soon the phrase "opening show" may be anachronistic, as the main tool for the pathologist will be a computer, not a scalpel. The method of virtual autopsy is using the most modern imaging techniques of the internal organs of dead people. Forensic and previously used X-ray methods, but only in rare cases. The methodology provided by Swiss specialists use a standard computer tomography of the whole body MRI, and then scan the individual organs with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).The new technique provides the same reliability study, as well as the traditional autopsy, and also has additional advantages - not the fact of opening (often act against the relatives of the dead) and, in addition, the court presentation of the results of the investigation and has no virtual autopsy by the judges and witness such a strong impact, as "evidence" of crimes. Computer processing and recovery of three-dimensional image of the deceased's body to store this data for a long time, and send them by e-mail to other experts.

Swiss researchers have reported similar results to his colleagues review of 100 cases collected over three years. Some experts expressed doubts that the new technique will be widely distributed because of the high cost of devices for computer and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), each of which costs between $ 300 thousand to $ 2 million, but Dr. M. Pulley (Michael Thali), development Manager, believes that this is just a matter of time, and 10-15 years of virtual autopsy method will be just as dominant, which has now become the method of identifying the body of the study of DNA.