Postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) and disaster victim identification

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 866-873

  Brough, A L ^a   Morgan, B ^a   Rutty, G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaster victim identification (DVI); Imaging; Mass fatality incident (MFI); Postmortem computed tomography (PMCT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DISASTER; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PROCEDURES;

DISASTERS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84940439157     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: 18266983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-015-0556-7     Document Type: Article

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