The use of 3D computed tomography reconstruction in medico-legal testimony regarding injuries in living victims - Risks and benefits

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-13

  Borowska Solonynko, Aleksandra ^a   Solonynko, Bohdan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Computed tomography; Expert testimony; Injury evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE STRUCTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONER; COURT; ECCHYMOSIS; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INCISION; INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PLEURA; RADIOLOGIST; RIB FRACTURE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SKIN INJURY; STAB WOUND; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISIBILITY; WEAPON; WITNESS; ETHICS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIB FRACTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 84919926516     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: 18787487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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