访谈录[Interview]2007-12-02:CSI的新武器

There is a new technology that could help crime scene investigators² solve cases faster. Our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta is actually a crime scene investigator¹.
I don't know what is it you don't do Sanjay, i gotta tell you. You are at the land this morning, and are there some new tools that could help you and others who do this. Find out causes maybe more accurately³ and quicker.

Yeah, this is really interesting, Karin. Actually, you know, when you take a look at typicl autopsies⁴, you can take hours, even days. We talk a lot about that as we cover deaths of people who are in the media, for example, and figure how long it takes for some of the results to come back. Well, there's been a group of reserchers trying to figure out ways to do this a lot faster. Now there's a techonology out there known as full body CAT scans ,you may've heard of that, but the idea was what about action instead of performing an actual autopsy⁵.

Do we want these full body CAT scans and seeing how good the results might be, how comparable might be to an actual autopsy. Let me give you an example. For in non-homicides when accidental blunt traumas⁷ such as car accident or something like that, you could get a full body CAT scan. I should take a look at CAT scan on their heads specifically and figure out if there was specific damage. Here is a CAT scan ,you can see them on your screen. Basically, if you are looking at this CAT scan which they would get within minutes literally⁸, you can tell pretty quickly that there's actully a lot of air here in the brain. And you can see in that black area is all air that's not supposed to be there ,and also there's a layer of blood in here as well. And that suggests that there were some sort of blunt force trauma⁶ to the head, that would confirm what the, what the pathologist might suspect as a possible cause of the death, for example, due to a car accident.

As part of the study, i currenly actually did 20 of this full body CAT scans and then compare the results to actual autopsies. And there were dead on. So this might be a very very quick way to get a sense, not homisize but it's accidental blunt trauma.
And with homicide, Karin, for example, people's on gunshot, when you wanna see if there was gun powder on the skin for example, of stabbling ,you wanna get a sense of the force to the impact. She can't tell that from CAT scan, but she can get a lot of other information.

You also have another techonology that can help, i know this has more been, um, but you know, got forbidden in the mass disasters, and is a main, big disaster where you have mass casualities they can help. At least provide some comfort for the families by being able to identify people faster.

Yeah, you know, as much as we talk about all these sophisticated techonology out there, in those mass casualty situations that you were alluding⁹ to, the way that most pathologists have actually approaches is through dental records, old fashion but very effective. part of the problem  is if you look at dental records from all ,dental records comparing to new, sometimes they don't quite match.
And it's hard to actually figure out if it's in fact the same person. So what they actually created is a software let me show you this as well, a software that will immediately collates¹⁰ the two images to make them look like identical. So you get a sense at that ,if you take a look at the image there ,you see in the left that this maybe a little bit hard for you to figure out, this is 290 pixellations , and this is 254. And it's hard to the untrained eye to tell that this is in fact the same person what the software does is immediately convertes so in fact they are very similar pexilations ,290 to 291. And you get a very clear idea if this is in fact the same person. And make that identification very quickly. So again it's all in the name of speed, it's all in the name of accuracy ,but this radiograph for the dental records CAT scans seem be a good tools.

1 investigator   

n.研究者，调查者，审查者

参考例句：

• He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
• The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 accurately   

adv.准确地，精确地

参考例句：

• It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
• Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。

4 autopsies   

n.尸体解剖( autopsy的名词复数 )；验尸；现场验证；实地观察

参考例句：

• Autopsies cannot be performed and thus no recent histological examinations have been reported. 不能进行尸体解剖，因此没有新近的组织学检查的报道。 来自辞典例句
• I told you to supervise autopsies, not to set up a lot of fancy rules. 我叫你监督解剖室，不是去制定一些空想的规定。 来自辞典例句

5 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

6 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

7 traumas   

n.心灵创伤( trauma的名词复数 )；损伤；痛苦经历；挫折

参考例句：

• She felt exhausted after the traumas of recent weeks. 她经受了最近几个星期的痛苦之后感到精疲力竭。
• Conclusion: Safety lens of spectacles can protect the occurrence of ocular traumas. 结论：安全镜片可以预防眼镜碎片所致的眼外伤。 来自互联网

8 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

9 alluding   

提及，暗指( allude的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He didn't mention your name but I was sure he was alluding to you. 他没提你的名字，但是我确信他是暗指你的。
• But in fact I was alluding to my physical deficiencies. 可我实在是为自己的容貌寒心。

10 collates   

v.校对( collate的第三人称单数 )；整理；核对；整理（文件或书等）

参考例句：

• A device that collates, merges, or matches sets of punched cards or other documents. 一种整理、合并或比较一组穿孔卡片或其它文档的设备。 来自辞典例句
• After this they collates all results to produce final rankings. 在此之后，他们整理所有结果产生最终排名。 来自互联网