Does imaging technology overcome problems of conventional postmortem examination? A trial of computed tomography imaging for postmortem examination

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-26

  Hayakawa, Mutsumi ^a   Yamamoto, Seiji ^b   Motani, Hisako ^a   Yajima, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Yayoi ^a   Iwase, Hirotaro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Postmortem examination

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWNING; FEMALE; HANGING; HEAD INJURY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29244433744     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0038-x     Document Type: Article

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