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    Traditional physical autopsies -- not high-tech 'virtopsies' -- still 'gold standard'

    oldowan:

    TV crime shows like Bones and CSI are quick to explain each death by showing highly detailed scans and video images of victims’ insides. Traditional autopsies, if shown at all, are at best in supporting roles to the high-tech equipment, and usually gloss over the sometimes physically grueling tasks of sawing through skin and bone.

    But according to two  and body imaging experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the notion that “virtopsy” could replace traditional autopsy— made popular by such TV dramas — is simply not ready for scientifically vigorous prime time. The latest virtual  — including full-body computed tomography (CT) scans,  (MRI), ultrasound, X-ray and  — are helpful, they say, but cannot yet replace a direct physical inspection of the body’s main organs.

    (Source: theolduvaigorge)