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Postmortem Imaging: A Part of Forensic Medicine

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In various fields of medical biological criminology, there has been continuous progress in scientific methodology over the last century, accompanied by improvements in the forensic evidential value of the findings obtained.

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    Richard Dirnhofer MD

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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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Dirnhofer, R. (2016). Postmortem Imaging: A Part of Forensic Medicine. In: Grabherr, S., Grimm, J., Heinemann, A. (eds) Atlas of Postmortem Angiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28537-5_2

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