Virtopsy versus digital autopsy: Virtuous autopsy;Virtopsy versus autopsia digitale: autopsia virtuosa

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1367-1382

  Pomara, C ^a   Fineschi, V ^a   Scalzo, G ^a   Guglielmi, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital autopsy; Forensic radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multislice computed tomography (MSCT); Noninvasive autopsy; Postmortem imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUTOPSY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 75949104178     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-009-0435-1     Document Type: Article

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