Virtopsy - The concept of a centralized database in forensic medicine for analysis and comparison of radiological and autopsy data

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 135-140

  Aghayev, Emin ^a   Staub, Lukas ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Ambrose, Tony ^a   Jackowski, Christian ^a   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Bolliger, Stephan ^a   Christe, Andreas ^a,b   Roeder, Christoph ^a   Aebi, Max ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Database; Digital autopsy; Forensic medicine; Post mortem; Radiology; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITALIZATION; DOCUMENTATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTOPSY;

AUTOPSY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 39749088849     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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