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ReviewInternational journal of legal medicine2025

The current state of forensic imaging - recommended radiological tools and international guidelines.

Fabrice Dedouit, Mathilde Ducloyer, Jamie Elifritz, Natalie L Adolphi, Grace Wong Yi-Li, Summer Decker, Jonathan Ford, Yanko Kolev, Michael Thali

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Review in International journal of legal medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Fabrice DedouitDepartment of Forensic Pathology, Bâtiment Raymonde Fournet, Place du Dr Baylac, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, 31700, France. dedouit.f@chu-toulouse.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3300-1272
Mathilde DucloyerDepartment of Forensic Pathology, University Hospital, Nantes University, Bd Jean Monnet, Nantes, F-44000, France.
Jamie ElifritzForensic Radiology Group, Anderson, SC, USA.
Natalie L AdolphiOffice of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
Grace Wong Yi-LiDepartment of Radiology, Penang General Hospital, Jalan Residensi, Georgetown, Penang, 10450, Malaysia.
Summer DeckerDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1450 San Pablo Street, Suite 3500, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
Jonathan FordDepartments of Radiology and Pathology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1450 San Pablo Street, Suite 3500, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
Yanko KolevDepartment of General Medicine, Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Medical University-Pleven, 1 St Kliment Ohridski Str, Pleven, 5800, Bulgaria.
Michael ThaliUniversity Zurich, Virtopsy Group, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The last few decades have seen the emergence of forensic imaging, both clinical and post-mortem. Year after year, the scientific community has refined the radiological tools that can be used for post-mortem and clinical forensic purposes. As a result, scientific societies have published recommendations that are essential for the daily work of forensic imaging. This third part of the review of the current state of forensic imaging describes these recommended radiological tools and also presents an overview of the various international guidelines dealing with post mortem imaging that can be found in the literature or that have been written by scientific societies.

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Forensic MedicineAutopsyForensic ImagingHumansPractice Guidelines as TopicTomography, X-Ray ComputedForensic imagingForensic sciencePostmortem computed tomographyRecommendations

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PMID40128331
PMCPMC12354491

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