Estimation of the postmortem interval by means of 1H MRS of decomposing brain tissue: Influence of ambient temperature

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 791-798

  Ith, Michael ^a   Scheurer, Eva ^a,b   Kreis, Roland ^a   Thali, Michael ^a   Dirnhofer, Richard ^a   Boesch, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Animal model; Bacterial decomposition; Brain metabolism; Postmortem interval; Temperature; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

1H MRS; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL DECOMPOSITION; BRAIN METABOLISM; POST MORTEM INTERVALS; VIRTOPSY;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN MODELS; DECOMPOSITION; ESTIMATION; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; TISSUE;

TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; COOLING; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CADAVER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTONS; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80051598934     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1623     Document Type: Article

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