Virtopsy: Postmortem minimally invasive angiography using cross section techniques - Implementation and preliminary results

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1175-1186

  Jackowski, Christian ^a   Sonnenschein, Martin ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Aghayev, Emin ^a   Von Allmen, Gabriel ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Vock, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Digital autopsy; Forensic radiology; Forensic science; Imaging autopsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Minimally invasive autopsy; Postmortem angiography; Postmortem imaging; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MEGLUMINE IOXITALAMATE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN ARTERY; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MODEL; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 24644491195     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2005023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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