Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Forensic / Necropsy studies, Paediatric, CT, MR, Medico-legal issues, Forensics
Authors:
N. benarbia1, D. Bentaleb1, Z. ELMALKY2, D. LAOUDIYI1, K. Chbani1, S. Salam1, L. OUZIDANE1; 1casablanca/MA, 2CASABLANCA /MA
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-2813
Background
Post mortem imaging or virtual autopsy is the use of imaging techniques on a dead body to help determine the causes of death,
which resolved a strong public health challenge,
in many cases limiting the autopsy,
and has a major societal dimension while respecting the integrity of the human body.
For more than a decade,
forensic medicine has been taking advantage of the new modalities of imaging in sections,
ultrasound and especially CT and MRI,
under the impulse of the pioneering work of Michael Thali’s team who inaugurated the era of virtual autopsy or "virtopsy"
It is practiced for scientific and medico-legal reasons,
mainly in addition to conventional autopsy,
as a pre-autopsy triage method or even as an alternative to conventional autopsy in certain situations ,
it allows the analysis of the whole body without destruction of matter.
Volume reconstructions are possible after a "passage" in CT and / or MRI,
which allows a less bloody and often more objective documentation than the classic photographs of the autopsy notebook.
This is particularly useful for anatomical regions of difficult dissection such as the facial or pelvis.
Currently,
post mortem imaging is becoming increasingly important,
especially in the field of suspected or proven maltreatment.