Feasibility of quantitative diffusion imaging of the heart in post-mortem MR

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 124-128

  Crooijmans, Hendrikus J A ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^b,c,d   Zech, Wolf Dieter ^c,d   Somaini, Sandra ^c,d   Scheffler, Klaus ^a,e,f   Thali, Michael J ^b   Bieri, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Diffusion; Forensic radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Post mortem magnetic resonance imaging; Quantitative measurement; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYSPNEA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; SCAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84880131926     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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