Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 276-279 , November 2010

A new approach in virtopsy: Postmortem ventilation in multislice computed tomography

  • Tanja Germerott

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Berne, Bühlstrasse 20, 3012 Berne, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 31 631 3049; fax: +41 31 631 3833.
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  • Ulrich S. Preiss

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Lars C. Ebert

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Thomas D. Ruder

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Steffen Ross

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
    • Inselspital Berne, Institute of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Patricia M. Flach

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
    • Inselspital Berne, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Garyfalia Ampanozi

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Laura Filograna

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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  • Michael J. Thali

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Received 15 March 2010 ,Revised 19 May 2010 ,Accepted 15 July 2010.

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PII: S1344-6223(10)00112-4

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.07.001

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 276-279 , November 2010

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