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Virtopsy
Virtopsy is a virtual alternative to a traditional autopsy, conducted with scanning and imaging technology. The name is a portmanteau of "virtual" and "autopsy" and is a trademark registered to Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Dirnhofer has proposed virtopsy as a partial or complete replacement for traditional autopsy, and he has asserted that virtopsy fully satisfies the requirement that medical forensic findings provide "a complete and true picture of the object examined".[This quote needs a citation] Furthermore, virtopsy is said to achieve the objective "that the pathologist's report should 'photograph' with words so that the reader is able to follow his thoughts visually".[This quote needs a citation]
Virtopsy employs imaging methods that are also used in clinical medicine such as computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Also, 3D body surface scanning is used to integrate body surface documentation with 3D scene or tool scans. The choice of methods is further supplemented with 3D imaging-guided biopsy systems and post-mortem angiography.
CT is well suited to show foreign objects, bone and air or gas distribution throughout the body, whereas MRI sequences are strong in detailing organ and soft tissue findings. A comprehensive analysis of both surface and deep tissue findings may require fusion of CT, MRI and 3D surface data.
Resulting data can be archived and reproduced without loss, analysed elsewhere, or distributed to specialists for technically demanding analysis.
Because traditional autopsies can produce both different and additional findings compared to virtopsies, virtopsy is not a generally accepted method to entirely replace autopsies. In fact, the first scientific study detailing the results of comparing postmortem CT scanning with conventional autopsies concluded that single methods were not as useful as the combination of scanning and autopsy were.
The term "Virtobot" is a trademark also registered to Prof. R. Dirnhofer. It describes a multi-functional robotic system.
The "Virtangio" machine is a device that is trademarked to Prof. R. Dirnhofer and manufactured by Fumedica [1].
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Virtopsy
Virtopsy is a virtual alternative to a traditional autopsy, conducted with scanning and imaging technology. The name is a portmanteau of "virtual" and "autopsy" and is a trademark registered to Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Dirnhofer has proposed virtopsy as a partial or complete replacement for traditional autopsy, and he has asserted that virtopsy fully satisfies the requirement that medical forensic findings provide "a complete and true picture of the object examined".[This quote needs a citation] Furthermore, virtopsy is said to achieve the objective "that the pathologist's report should 'photograph' with words so that the reader is able to follow his thoughts visually".[This quote needs a citation]
Virtopsy employs imaging methods that are also used in clinical medicine such as computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Also, 3D body surface scanning is used to integrate body surface documentation with 3D scene or tool scans. The choice of methods is further supplemented with 3D imaging-guided biopsy systems and post-mortem angiography.
CT is well suited to show foreign objects, bone and air or gas distribution throughout the body, whereas MRI sequences are strong in detailing organ and soft tissue findings. A comprehensive analysis of both surface and deep tissue findings may require fusion of CT, MRI and 3D surface data.
Resulting data can be archived and reproduced without loss, analysed elsewhere, or distributed to specialists for technically demanding analysis.
Because traditional autopsies can produce both different and additional findings compared to virtopsies, virtopsy is not a generally accepted method to entirely replace autopsies. In fact, the first scientific study detailing the results of comparing postmortem CT scanning with conventional autopsies concluded that single methods were not as useful as the combination of scanning and autopsy were.
The term "Virtobot" is a trademark also registered to Prof. R. Dirnhofer. It describes a multi-functional robotic system.
The "Virtangio" machine is a device that is trademarked to Prof. R. Dirnhofer and manufactured by Fumedica [1].