High-speed documented experimental gunshot to a skull-brain model and radiologic virtual autopsy

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-228

  Thali, Michael J ^a   Kneubuehl, Beat P ^a,b   Vock, Peter ^a   Allmen, Gabriel V ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Defense Procurement Agency   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ballistics; Digital autopsy; High speed photography; Radiographic autopsy; Radiology; Skull brain model; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BALLISTICS; CAMERA; COMPUTER MODEL; EVALUATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL INJURY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOPSY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHOTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0036733686     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-200209000-00003     Document Type: Article

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