ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2020
An evaluation of the objectivity and reproducibility of shear wave elastography in estimating the post-mortem interval: a tissue biomechanical perspective.
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- Human Decomposition and Time Since Death: Persistent Challenges and Future Directions of Postmortem Interval Estimation in Forensic Anthropology.American journal of biological anthropology · 2024Pooled it
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- PMI estimation through metabolomics and potassium analysis on animal vitreous humour.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Article
- Post-Mortem Interval and Microbiome Analysis through 16S rRNA Analysis: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Ultrasound shear-wave elastography applicability in estimation of post-mortem time.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2022Article
- Post mortem computed tomography meets radiomics: a case series on fractal analysis of post mortem changes in the brain.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
- Sensing red blood cell nano-mechanics: Toward a novel blood biomarker for Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Estimation of the time of death by measuring the variation of lateral cerebral ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid radiodensity using postmortem computed tomography.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography and Transient Optical Coherence Elastography: Side-by-Side Comparison of Repeatability and Accuracy.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cadaveric rigidity-also referred to as rigor mortis-is a valuable source of information for estimating the time of death, which is a fundamental and challenging task in forensic sciences. Despite its relevance, assessing the level of cadaveric rigidity still relies on qualitative and often subjective observations, and the development of a more quantitative approach is highly demanded. In this context, ultrasound shear wave elastography (US SWE) appears to be a particularly well-suited technique for grading cadaveric rigidity, as it allows non-invasive quantification of muscle stiffness in terms of Young's modulus (E), which is a widely used parameter in tissue biomechanics. In this pilot study, we measured, for the first time in the literature, changes in the mechanical response of muscular tissues from 0 to 60 h post-mortem (hpm) using SWE, with the aim of investigating its applicability to forensic practice. For this purpose, 26 corpses were included in the study, and the muscle mechanical response was measured at random times in the 0-60 hpm range. Despite the preliminary nature of this study, our data indicate a promising role of SWE in the quantitative determination of cadaveric rigidity, which is still currently based on qualitative and semiquantitative methods. A more in-depth study is required to confirm SWE applicability in this field in order to overcome some of the inherent limitations of the present work, such as the rather low number of cases and the non-systematic approach of the measurements.
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