Virtopsy


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A project in begun at the University of Berne using CT and a permutation of MRI known as quantitative synthetic MRI to examine sudden and/or suspicious (‘forensic’) deaths and document injuries due to burning, and forensically relevant vital reactions—e.g., air embolism, blood aspiration
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Virtopsy Computed Tomography in Trauma: Normal Postmortem Changes and Pathologic Spectrum of Findings.
Virtopsy: One step forward in the field of forensic medicine.
Role of virtopsy in the post-mortem diagnosis of drowning.
The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography Scans in Postmortem Diagnosis/Uso de la resonancia magnetica y la tomografia computarizada en diagnostico postmortem/Uso da ressonancia magnetica e da tomografia computadorizada no diagnostico pos-morte: revisao do assunto
Virtopsy: fatal stab wounds to the skull--the relevance of ante-mortem and post-mortem radiological data in case reconstructions.
From the Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine (Drs Flach, Ross, Bolliger, Preiss, Thali, and Spendlove) and the Department of Radiology, Inselspital Bern (Dr Flach), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Flach, MD, Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buhlstrasse 20, 3012 Bern, Switzerland (e-mail: patricia.flach@irm.unibe.ch).
Postmortem whole-body computed tomography angiography visualizing vascular rupture in a case of fatal car crash
However, a virtopsy (virtual autopsy) is a minimally invasive alternative that can produce an efficient autopsy.
The virtopsy approach; 3D optical and radiological scanning and reconstruction in forensic medicine
(51) Virtopsy proved unsatisfactory when diagnosing trauma to internal organs.
Virtopsy also arguably provides numerous advantages over conventional autopsy in the courtroom.
Legal trends in imaging
Virtopsy hemorrhage of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle by blunt force to the neck in postmortem multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Virtopsy: minimally invasive, imaging-guided virtual autopsy.
Virtopsy: postmortem imaging of laryngeal foreign bodies

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