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Forensic Radiology (Autopsy) of the Stomach and Duodenum

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One of the most important issues for the image science in the future is the clinical workflow. The entire chain from the acquisition of data until the point at which the clinician receives the diagnostic information must be optimized, and new methods must be validated. Normally, performing this validation process on living patients has its limitations. It can in some cases be impossible to know if the acquired diagnostic information is correct as long as the patient is alive; the real gold standard is missing. Postmortem imaging has the potential to solve this problem.

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  1. Department of Radiology of Medical and Health Sciences (IMH), Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) University of Linkoping, 58185, Linköping, Sweden

    A. Persson M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor)

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  1. Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Bernd Hamm

  2. Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Pablo R. Ros

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Persson, A. (2013). Forensic Radiology (Autopsy) of the Stomach and Duodenum. In: Hamm, B., Ros, P.R. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13327-5_27

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