Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 271-275 , November 2010

Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) of mountaineering casualties in the Swiss Alps – Advantages and limitations

  • Ross Steffen

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 31 631 84 11; fax: +41 31 631 38 33.
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  • Cosima Suter

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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  • Flach Patricia

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • Departement of Neuroradiology, Inselspital Bern, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
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  • Oesterhelweg Lars

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin D-10559, Germany
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  • Thali Michael

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Bolliger Stephan

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstrasse 20, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

Received 5 October 2009 ,Revised 19 April 2010 ,Accepted 6 June 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00092-1

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.06.002

Legal Medicine
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