Post-mortem radiological CT identification based on classical ante-mortem X-ray examinations

Forensic Science International

Volumn 171, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 111-117

  Pfaeffli, Matthias ^a   Vock, Peter ^b   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Braun, Marcel ^a   Bolliger, Stephan A ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT; Forensic identification; Forensic radiology; Frontal sinus; Pelvis; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTEMORTEM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY REGIONS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY; X RAY FILM;

EID: 34547673374     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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