Early Experience With Postmortem CT Imaging
PMCT can be a valuable service to decedent families as well as to forensic pathologists who often operate in a limited resource environment. We anticipate that PMCT will become a standard discipline in forensic analysis. This service can often reduce the need for traditional autopsy and provides the potential to honor cultural sentiments and religious needs surrounding traditional autopsy. Establishing such a service requires the co-operation of many stakeholders, sometimes across institutional boundaries. PMCT broadens the experience of the radiologist and provides the potential for collaborative research and educational opportunities between radiology and the MEO. Lessons learned from this study may be useful for other jurisdictions implementing PMCT.
Authors
- Jonathan R. Medverd
- Nicole Yarid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3513-8192)
- Jeffrey D. Robinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5387-3831)
- D Zamora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3438-0799)
- Kalpana M. Kanal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2089-5230)
- Dushyant V. Sahani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8522-1018)
- J. Matthew Lacy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-3193)
- William P. Shuman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1821-6251)
- Richard C. Harruff
Institutions
- University of Washington (US)
- Harborview Medical Center (US)
- Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (US)
- King County Medical Examiner's Office (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/rct.0000000000001732
- Primary Topic
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00