Virtopsy - Radiology in forensic medicine

Imaging Decisions MRI

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-9

  Grabherr, S ^a   Stephan, B A ^a   Buck, U ^a   Nather S ^a   Christe, A ^a   Oesterhelweg, L ^a   Ross, S ^a   Dirnhofer, R ^a   Thali, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Forensic radiology; Minimal invasive autopsy; Post mortem radiology; Surface scanning; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34347388234     PISSN: 14333317     EISSN: 16170830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1617-0830.2007.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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