virtopsy
Sign in to saveVirtopsy is a virtual alternative to a traditional autopsy, conducted with scanning and imaging technology. The name is a portmanteau of "virtual" and "autopsy" and is a trademark registered to Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Within Vinony's link graph, virtopsy is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography and respiratory tract.
It is catalogued under the topic X-ray computed tomography.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Concept
- Terms
- Operative aspects
- Examination of death
- Examination of the living
- Technology
- Virtopsy objectives
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Best practice
- Virtopsy project leading house
- Institutes contributing to the Virtopsy project
- Institutes, districts or countries conducting post-mortem scanning
- Films
- Books and journals
- Virtopsies in popular culture
- References
- External links
Virtopsy is a virtual alternative to a traditional autopsy, conducted with scanning and imaging technology. The name is a portmanteau of "virtual" and "autopsy" and is a trademark registered to Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Dirnhofer has proposed virtopsy as a partial or complete replacement for traditional autopsy, and he has asserted that virtopsy fully satisfies the requirement that medical forensic findings provide "a complete and true picture of the object examined". Furthermore, virtopsy is said to achieve the objective "that the pathologist's report should 'photograph' with words so that the reader is able to follow his thoughts visually".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “virtopsy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.