The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology was a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike. Enhanced by more than 1,300 images, the second edition explores current approaches to radiology in mass casualty situations and the radiologist as an expert witness. It discusses modern
The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology, published in 1998, was a milestone in the forensic community a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike. Like its predecessor, Brogdons Forensic Radiology, Second Edition covers the entire scope of radiological applications in the forensic sciences, profiling current and anticipated uses of new modalities and techniques.
Features:
- Provides an introduction to forensic radiology, including historical perspectives and definitions used in the field
- Offers instruction on trial preparation and effective courtroom testimony
- Demonstrates the use of forensic radiology in identification of the dead
- Explores the use of radiology to help in gunshot and abuse cases and in nonviolent crimes
- Contains an entirely new section on virtual imaging and virtopsy
- Examines technological and safety issues
For radiologists, forensic scientists, forensic dentists, medical examiners, investigators, and attorneys
Over the past twelve years, the fields of forensic science and radiology have developed considerably, necessitating a revision of this critical work.
New Topics in this Edition include:
- The radiologist as an expert witness
- Modern cross-sectional imaging in anthropology
- New approaches to radiology in mass casualty situations
- The use of virtual imaging and virtopsy new modalities developed and advanced since the publication of the last edition
- Forensic and clinical usage of x-rays in body packing for drug smuggling
- Imaging in the medical examiners facility and in the field
- Radiology of special objects, antiquities, and mummies
Introduction to Forensic Radiology. Definitions in Forensics and
Radiology. Forensic Radiology in Historical Perspective. Scope of Forensic
Radiology. Coping with the Courts. The Radiological Expert. The Expert
Witness as Viewed from the Bench. The Radiologist in the Courtroom Witness
Stand: Good, Bad, and Indifferent. Identification. Identification of the
Dead. Radiological Identification: Antropological Parameters.
Modern Cross-Sectional Imaging in Anthropology. Radiographic Applications in
Forensic Dental Identification. Virtopsy: Dental Scan and Body CT Imaging as
a Screening Tool for Identification. Radiological Identification of
Individual Remains. Radiology in Mass Casualty Situations. New Approaches to
Radiology in Mass Casualty Situations. Gunshot Wounds.
Forensic Radiology of Gunshot Wounds. New Developments in Gunshot Analysis.
Radiology of Abuse. Child Abuse. Abuse of Intimate Partners and of the
Elderly: An Overview. Radiology in Nonviolent Crimes. Smuggling/Border
Control. Forensic and Clinical Usage of X-rays in Body Packing. Larceny.
Radiology of Fakes and Forgery in Art. Virtual Imaging. Reporting and Finding
Expert Opinion: Virtopsy and the Logic of Scientific Discovery of K.R.
Popper. Photogrammetry-Based Optical Surface Scanning. Cross-Sectional
Imaging and Swiss Virtobot Documentation and Analysis: Work Flow and
Procedure. Clinical and Forensic Radiology Are not the Same. Postmortem
Biopsy. Postmortem Angiography. Using Real 3D Data for Reconstruction.
Applications of Rapid-Prototyping Methods in Forensic Medicine. Facial
Reconstruction: New Approaches. Virtopsy and Forensic Tissue Simulation and
Synthetic Body Models. Facilities, Equipment, and Organization. Organization
and Management of Forensic Radiology. Facility, Equipment, and Radiation
Protection. Forensic Radiological Technology. Imaging in the Medical
Examiners Facility. Imaging in the Field. Radiology of Special Objects,
Antiquities, and Mummies. Essentials of Diagnostic Imaging. Production of the
Radiographic Image. Radiographic Positioning. Index.
Michael J. Thali has written many virtual autopsy papers (see www.virtopsy.com) and is editor of the book The Virtopsy Approach. He has been a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland since 2006, and at the time of finishing this book is the director of the Forensic Institute at the University of Bern.
Mark D. Viner is a Fellow of Cranfield University Forensic Institute, Chief Executive of the Inforce Foundation, and a Senior Manager at St. Bartholomews and The Royal London Hospitals. He has a long-held interest in forensic imaging and emergency planning, developed during almost 30 years of experience as radiographer and radiology manager in the United Kingdom.
B.G. Brogdons interest and experience in forensic radiology goes back more than 40 years to a time when he was radiologist-in- charge at the Division of Diagnostic Radiology at Johns Hopkins. His involvement in the field continued throughout his tenures as professor and Chair of the Departments of Radiology at the University of New Mexico and, later, at the University of South Alabama where he is now University Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
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