Postmortem Whole-Body MRI in traumatic causes of death

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1186-1192

  Ross, Steffen ^a,b   Ebner, Lukas ^a   Flach, Patricia ^c,d   Brodhage, Rolf ^e   Bolliger, Stephan A ^a   Christe, Andreas ^b   Thali, Michael J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Roentgen Institut Brunnhof   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

MRI; Postmortem imaging; Trauma; Virtual autopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART RUPTURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; LACERATION; LIVER RUPTURE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL INJURY; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE FRACTURE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; STANDARDIZATION; STRANGULATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84870883477     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.8767     Document Type: Article

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