The rise of forensic and post-mortem radiology-analysis of the literature between the year 2000 and 2011

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-9

  Baglivo, Manuela ^a,b   Winklhofer, Sebastian ^a,c   Hatch, Gary M ^d   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forensic radiology; Literature analysis; Post mortem imaging; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 84876716523     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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