Advancing the state-of-the-art for virtual autopsies - Initial forensic workflow study

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 639-643

  Scandurra, Isabella ^a   Forsell, Camilla ^b   Ynnerman, Anders ^b   Ljung, Patric ^c   Lundström, Claes ^d   Persson, Anders ^b  

^a APRI eHealth AB   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Sectra Imtec AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Forensic medicine; Human engineering; Postmortem imaging; Radiology; Task performance and analysis; Tomography; Virtual autopsy; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

3D VISUALIZATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL AUTOPSY; X-RAY COMPUTED;

DIGITAL FORENSICS;

EID: 78649517093     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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