Use of the software 'Poser4' in reconstruction of accident and crime scenes

The reconstruction of accident and crime scenes demands the full attention of the forensic working physician. Description by words is often difficult and liable to be misunderstood. Reconstruction in the original places of ev ents are expensive and in some cases impossible. Computer graphics and anim ations give the possibility to construct the original course of events. Pos er4 is a software package to perform these reconstructions in an easy acid vivid way. We investigated the possibilities of reconstructing an accident with this software. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reser ved.