Charred body: Virtual autopsy with multi-slice Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1326-1331

  Thali, Michael J ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Plattner, Thomas ^a   Schweitzer, Wolf ^a   Vock, Peter ^a   Ozdoba, Christoph ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burned; Charred body; Computed Tomography; Digital autopsy; Forensic radiology; Forensic science; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Virtopsy; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BURN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0036846443     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs15569j     Document Type: Article

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