Into the decomposed body - Feasibility of post-mortem CT angiography in a decomposed cadaver

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 149-152

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b   Schulze, Katja ^a   Ross, Steffen ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Gascho, Dominic ^a   Laberke, Patrick ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Decomposition; Forensic radiology; Post mortem CT; Post mortem CT angiography; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MACROGOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BIOACCUMULATION; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPOSED CADAVER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; INFRARENAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; POST MORTEM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; POST MORTEM INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 84905171452     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: 22124799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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