Whole body postmortem angiography with a high viscosity contrast agent solution using poly ethylene glycol as contrast agent dissolver

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 465-468

  Jackowski, Christian ^a,b   Persson, Anders ^b   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Digital autopsy; Forensic radiology; Forensic science; Imaging autopsy; Minimally invasive autopsy; Poly ethylene glycol; Postmortem angiography; Postmortem imaging; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MACROGOL 400;

AORTA ROOT; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CIRCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART OUTPUT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOMETRY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 41149093071     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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