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Keywords:
Radiographers, Professional issues, CT, Diagnostic procedure, Socio-economic issues, Comparative studies, Forensics, Trauma
Authors:
A. Silva, N. F. Pinto, A. F. Abrantes, L. P. Ribeiro, R. P. P. Almeida, K. B. Azevedo, J. P. Pinheiro; Faro/PT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2017/B-1364
Methods and materials
In this case study,
as inclusion criteria,
a person had to die in a violent manner by suicide or homicide (in these circumstances a conventional autopsy is mandatory according the nacional law) within the hospital area.
A car was discovered on the edge of a cliff about 50 meters above the beach; the cadaver was on the shore in the supine position.
The cadaver was sent to the department of forensic medicine at the nearest hospital for the external examination,
post-mortem imaging (by radiographer) and internal dissection.
For data collection purposes,
the pathologist gave permission to be recorded during the course of conventional autopsy,
and the radiology department agreed to perform the post-mortem imaging.
The imaging was carried out with a CT 16 slices equipment and a 1.5 Tesla MRI.
It were performed imaging examinations to the same anatomical regions as in the conventional autopsy (head,
neck,
thorax,
abdomen and pelvis).
For CT imaging it was made MultiPlanar Reconstrutions on axial,
sagittal and coronal axes,
and the MRI protocol is showed on Table 1.