Virtual Autopsy: Preliminary Experience in High-Velocity Gunshot Wound Victims

Levy, Angela D.; Abbott, Robert M.; Mallak, Craig T.; Getz, John M.; Harcke, H. Theodore; Champion, Howard R.; Pearse, Lisa

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“…[1][2][3] As virtual autopsy gains more widespread utilization, an understanding of the imaging findings that reflect the normal decomposition process is essential to prevent misinterpretation of normal postmortem radiologic findings as pathologic processes. The goal of this article is to characterize the expected imaging findings in the postmortem brain in the 72 hours after death and to describe the pitfalls in imaging interpretation that could lead to an incorrect diagnosis.…”

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Common and Expected Postmortem CT Observations Involving the Brain: Mimics of Antemortem Pathology

Smith

Lattin

Berran³

et al. 2012

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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Common and Expected Postmortem CT Observations Involving the Brain: Mimics of Antemortem Pathology

Smith

Lattin

Berran³

et al. 2012

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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“…Injuries of firearm projectile. [9] 3. Human identification in mass disaster cases describes for the comparison between AM and PM reconstructed panoramic radiographs, CT, and magnetic resonance imaging.…”

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VIRTOPSY: An emerging tool

Nagaraj¹,

Nigam²,

Gogula³

et al. 2018

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Forensic odontology has been an upcoming branch in forensic medicine for personal identification. Currently, new technologies and advances are upcoming in forensic medicine. Autopsy was used as diagnostic tool in the ancient era, but now virtopsy appears to be a modification of autopsy in which pictorial, photographic, and radiological evidences are composed altogether through imaging. It utilizes images which provide an effective and more precise explanation in every case. This is a review article which apprises on the beginning, applications of virtopsy in dentistry.

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“…Although soft tissues can also be seen and assessed with CT, the main strength lies in the detection and depiction of foreign bodies (figure 1), fractures (figure 2), gas (figure 3) and fluid accumulations, such as blood [10][11][12][13].…”

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Imaging and virtual autopsy: looking back and forward

Bolliger

Thali

2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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In order to create a three-dimensional (3D) documentation of findings which can be reassessed if necessary by other experts, the research project ‘Virtopsy®’ was launched in the late 1990s. This project combined autopsy results with forensic imaging in the form of computed tomography, magnetic resonance tomography and 3D surface scanning. The success of this project eventually succeeded in convincing the courts in Switzerland to accept these novel methods as evidence. As opposition towards autopsies has grown over the last decades, Virtopsy also strives to find and elaborate additional methods which can answer the main forensic questions without autopsy. These methods comprise post-mortem angiography for illustration of the vascular bed and image-guided tissue and fluid sampling for histological, toxicological and microbiological examinations. Based on the promising results, post-mortem imaging, especially with 3D surface scanning, has meanwhile also been applied to living victims of assault, who have suffered patterned injuries due to bites, blows with objects, etc. In our opinion, forensic imaging is an objective method which offers the possibility for a reassessment of the findings by other experts, even after burial or cremation of the corpse, or healing of the injuries in living victims, thus leading to a greater security in court.

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Virtual Autopsy: Preliminary Experience in High-Velocity Gunshot Wound Victims

Abstract: Multidetector CT can aid prediction of lethal wounds and location of metallic fragments.

Cited by 130 publications

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Common and Expected Postmortem CT Observations Involving the Brain: Mimics of Antemortem Pathology

Common and Expected Postmortem CT Observations Involving the Brain: Mimics of Antemortem Pathology

VIRTOPSY: An emerging tool

Imaging and virtual autopsy: looking back and forward

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