PSMFC
Regional Mark Processing Center
Recovery Gallery

raven-sm Recovery Gallery

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head-lab-dissection

A head lab employee begins quartering a recovered head containing a coded wire tag.

head-lab-detection Each quarter of the head is scanned to determine which portion contains a coded wire tag.
head-lab-extraction Once the section with a coded wire tag is identified, the tag is extracted and placed in a plastic bag with the recovery information. head-lab-decoding Each extracted tag is read under a microscope.  The decoded number of the tag is added to the recovery information that came with the individual head.