3D C-arm as an alternative modality to CT in postmortem imaging: Technical feasibility

Forensic Science International

Volumn 175, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 134-139

  Pohlenz, Philipp ^a   Blessmann, Marco ^a   Oesterhelweg, Lars ^a   Habermann, Christan R ^a   Begemann, Philipp G C ^a   Schmidgunst, Christian ^b   Blake, Felix ^a   Schulze, Dirk ^c   Püschel, Klaus ^a   Schmelzle, Rainer ^a   Heiland, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone beam computed tomography; Flat panel detector; Forensic radiology; Postmortem imaging; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE STRUCTURE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EQUIPMENT; FACE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEAD; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NECK; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 38849084571     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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