Virtopsy: Touch-free autopsy
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Abstract
The word “autopsy” denotes “to see with own eyes.” Autopsy (postmortem) is a process that includes a thorough examination of a corpse noting everything related to anatomization, surface wounds, histological and culture studies. Virtopsy is a term extracted from two words “virtual” and “autopsy.” It employs imaging methods that are routinely used in clinical medicine such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in the field of autopsy, to find the reason for death. Virtopsy is a multi-disciplinary technology that combines forensic medicine and pathology, roentgenology, computer graphics, biomechanics, and physics. It is rapidly gaining importance in the field of forensics. This approach has been recently used by forensic odontologists, but yet to make its own mark in the field. This article mainly deals with “virtopsy” where in various articles were web searched, relevant data was selected, extracted, and summarized here.
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Raj Badam, Triekan Sownetha, D Babu, Shefali Waghray, Lavanya Reddy, Komali Garlapati, & Sunanda Chavva. (2017). Virtopsy: Touch-free autopsy. Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences, 9(1), 42–46. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfo.jfds_7_16
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