Quantitative MRI in Isotropic Spatial Resolution for Forensic Soft Tissue Documentation. Why and How?

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 208-215

  Jackowski, Christian ^a,b,c   Warntjes, Marcel J B ^a,d   Kihlberg, Johan ^a   Berge, Johan ^c   Thali, Michael J ^e   Persson, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Forensic Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forensic radiology; Forensic science; Postmortem imaging; Postmortem MRI; Quantitative MRI; Whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AUTOPSY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 78650747443     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01547.x     Document Type: Article

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