Virtopsy-noninvasive detection of occult bone lesions in postmortem MRI: Additional information for traffic accident reconstruction

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-226

  Buck, Ursula ^a,b   Christe, Andreas ^a,c   Naether, Silvio ^a   Ross, Steffen ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Canton Police Bern   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bone bruise; Forensic radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Traffic accident reconstruction; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BONE; BONE LESION; BONE MARROW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTUSION; CYCLING; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDESTRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BLEEDING; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM INJURIES; AUTOPSY; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 67349115202     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0296-5     Document Type: Article

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