South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Tuesday launched a new fingerprinting acquisition system, using high-speed, large-volume optical coherence tomography (OCT).The OCT system ensures the print is scanned, without any contact, and immediately compared with the fingerprint databases used by law enforcement, reports Engineering News.This means the new system, once operational, should see the immediate, on-site scanning and matching of fingerprints – also partial prints – found at crime scenes.the three-dimensional print captured by the OCT system was also far superior compared with those lifted by traditional methods, CSIR novel laser sources group senior researcher Ann Singh told the newspaper.”The ultimate goal is for real-time fingerprint matching with the database, from any crime scene,” said Singh. “We think we may have something portable in three years.”
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