CT-Guided, Minimally Invasive, Postmortem Needle Biopsy Using the B-Rob II Needle-Positioning Robot

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 517-521

  Martinez, Rosa M ^a   Ptacek, Wolfgang ^b   Schweitzer, Wolf ^a   Kronreif, Gernot ^b   Fürst, Martin ^b   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ebert, Lars C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Integrated Microsystems Austria GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

CT; Forensic imaging; Forensic science; Image guided; Postmortem biopsy; Robotic; Tissue sampling; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

GELATIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORENSIC IMAGING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSTMORTEM BIOPSY; ROBOTIC; ROBOTICS; TISSUE SAMPLING; VIRTOPSY;

CT; FORENSIC IMAGING; FORENSIC SCIENCE; IMAGE GUIDED; POSTMORTEM BIOPSY; ROBOTIC; TISSUE SAMPLING; VIRTOPSY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GELATIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84897647088     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12329     Document Type: Article

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