Image-guided virtual autopsy findings of gunshot victims performed with multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and subsequent correlation between radiology and autopsy findings

Forensic Science International

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 8-16

  Thali, Michael J ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Vock, Peter ^a   Ozdoba, Christoph ^a   Kneubuehl, Beat P ^a   Sonnenschein, Martin ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital autopsy; Forensic; Forensic science; Gunshot; Image guided virtual autopsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multi slice computed tomography; Postmortem; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG ASPIRATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SKULL FRACTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0345258500     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(03)00225-1     Document Type: Article

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