Improved Vision in Forensic Documentation: Forensic, 3-D/CAD-supported Photogrammetry of bodily injury external surfaces, combined with Volumetric Radiologic Scanning of bodily injury internal structures, provides more investigative leads and stronger forensic evidence.

In the field of the documentation of forensics-relevant injuries, from the reconstructive point of view, the Forensic, 3-D/CAD-supported Photogrammetry plays an important role; particularly so when a detailed 3-D reconstruction is vital This was demonstrated with an experimentally-produced "injury" to a head model the "skin-skull-brain model" (1,2,3). The injury-causing instrument, drawn from a real forensic case, was a specifically formed weapon (nail-claw/nail puller). Because the objects to be investigated (the injury, and the surface of the nail-claw) were evaluated in virtual space, they had to be series photographed These photo sequences were then evaluated with the RolleiMetric multi-image evaluation system. In this process, 3-D data models of the objects were created In a 3-D/CAD program, the model of the injury surface was then compared against the model of the known (in the real forensic case, suspected) injury-causing instrument. In order to evaluate the head model's internal structure, a radiologic scan was performed A 3-D injury reconstruction was also made from the scan's data This permitted the evaluation of the injury's sub-surface morphological details. The combination of Forensic, 3-D/CAD-supported Photogrammetry and Radiologic (for example, CT or MRI) volume scanning enables the real-life size and shape documentation of the surface and volume of an injury (4). This object documentation is performed without touching, changing or in any way damaging the object. This process also opens the door for the practice of the "scalpel-free" autopsy ("Forensic Digital Autopsy").