Postmortem imaging of blunt chest trauma using CT and MRI comparison with autopsy

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-27

  Aghayev, Emin ^a   Christe, Andreas ^a,b   Sonnenschein, Martin ^b,c   Yen, Kathrin ^a   Jackowski, Christian ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Vock, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Inselspital   (Switzerland)

^c Sonnenhof Spital AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blunt chest trauma; CT; MRI; Postmortem; Virtopsy; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOPERICARDIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 44949207597     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e31815c85d6     Document Type: Article

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