Experience with post-mortem computed tomography in Southern Denmark 2006-11

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 161-166

  Leth, Peter Mygind ^a   Thomsen, Jørgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Computed tomography; CT scanning; Forensic imaging; PMCT; Post mortem imagining

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CALCIFICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FOREIGN BODY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRACTURE; GALLSTONE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOTROPHY; INJURY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ULCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MYOCARDIAL SCAR TISSUE; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; ORGAN INJURY; PERITONITIS; POST MORTEM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCAR; SCREENING; STANDARDIZATION; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84884703927     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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