ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2016
Forensic postmortem computed tomography: volumetric measurement of the heart and liver.
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- A Virtual, 3D Multimodal Approach to Victim and Crime Scene Reconstruction.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Application of postmortem imaging modalities in cases of sudden death due to cardiovascular diseases-current achievements and limitations from a pathology perspective : Endorsed by the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and by the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the mediastinal-thoracic volume ratio on postmortem computed tomography.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Cardiac hypertrophy at autopsy.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2021Article
- Postmortem imaging as a complementary tool for the investigation of cardiac death.Forensic sciences research · 2019Review
- Epicardial adipose tissue volume estimation by postmortem computed tomography of eviscerated hearts.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2017 · on this mapArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) images in estimating organ sizes and to examine the use of the cardiothoracic ratio (CTR).
methodsWe included 45 individuals (19 females), who underwent a medico-legal autopsy. Using the computer software program Mimics
resultsWe found no correlation between the in situ and ex vivo volumes of the heart and liver. However, a highly significant correlation was found between the ex vivo volumes and weights of the heart and liver. No correlations between CTR and the ex vivo heart volume nor with HWR was found. Concerning cardiomegaly, we found no agreement between the CTR and HWR. The intra- and inter-observer analyses showed no significant differences.
conclusionsNoninvasive in situ PMCT methods for organ measuring, as performed in this study, are not useful tools in forensic pathology. The best method to estimate organ volume is a CT-scan of the eviscerated organ. PMCT-determined CTR seems to be useless for ascertaining cardiomegaly, as it neither correlated with the ex vivo heart volume nor with the HWR.
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