Estimation of heart weight by post-mortem cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-18

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b,c   Stolzmann, Paul ^d   Thali, Yannick A ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^e   Somaini, Sandra ^b,c   Bucher, Matthias ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^d   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Forensic radiology; Heart weight; Magnetic resonance imaging; Post mortem; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84877985734     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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