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Postmortem Imaging: Development and Historical Review

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With the development of Virtopsy in the 1990s, it would be reasonable to imagine that postmortem imaging is a recent development. In fact, postmortem imaging has been part of radiology since the days of the pioneers. The reality is that postmortem imaging was practiced right at the start of imaging. As new radiologic techniques have developed they have been applied to postmortem studies, and postmortem studies have assisted in the development of radiologic techniques.

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    Adrian M. K. Thomas FRCP, FRCR, FBIR

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  1. University Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Silke Grabherr

  2. University Center of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Center Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Jochen M. Grimm

  3. Institute of Legal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppend, Hamburg, Germany

    Axel Heinemann

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Thomas, A.M.K. (2016). Postmortem Imaging: Development and Historical Review. In: Grabherr, S., Grimm, J., Heinemann, A. (eds) Atlas of Postmortem Angiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28537-5_1

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