Visualization and quantification of air embolism structure by processing postmortem MSCT data

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1339-1342

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air embolism; Computed tomography; Forensic radiology; Forensic science; Imaging autopsy; Non invasive autopsy; Postmortem imaging; Postprocessing; Virtopsy; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 7544226182     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2004047     Document Type: Article

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