Autopsies in the digital age.

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Came across this on Tomorrow Today, a science program on DW Tv.

For more than 2,000 years, the methods used to conduct autopsies have barely changed. Now, a team of forensic scientists in Zurich have pioneered a new way of examining the dead: The virtual autopsy.

Autopsies go virtual – DW – 01/08/2022

For more than 2,000 years, the methods used to conduct autopsies have barely changed. Now, a team of forensic scientists in Zurich have pioneered a new way of examining the dead: The virtual autopsy.

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Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to begin using imaging machines designed to diagnose the living as a tool to uncover the medical secrets of the dead. The scene plays out in autopsy rooms around the world, not to mention on any number of TV crime dramas: a scalpel-wielding pathologist calmly dissects a lifeless body for clues to an untimely death. The chest and abdominal cavities are pried open, organs removed and the brain eased out through a sawn-off skull in a medical tradition as ancient as the Pharaohs. It is a tradition, though, facing very modern competition. Led partly by a prominent Canadian pathologist, some specialists are pushing to augment, or on occasion even replace, those conventional post mortems with “virtual autopsies” that use CT and MRI scans to probe bloodlessly inside cadavers.

‘Virtual autopsies’ using CT and MRI scans joining traditional dissection methods for post mortems

Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to begin using imaging machines designed to diagnose the living as a tool to uncover the medical secrets of…

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What are the applications for virtual autopsies?

Not limited to but the mostly widely used applications for virtual autopsies include blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, unidentified bodies, falls from heights, suspected elder abuse, drowning, unknown causes of death, suicide, contraband, decomposition, burns, traffic accident, badly damaged bodies (due to train or place accidents), and gunshot incidents.

What is Post-Mortem CT? — ADS

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