Forensic Imaging A Practical Guide

This superbly illustrated book examines all aspects of the use of modern post-mortem imaging in forensic investigations, which has flourished since the introduction of multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Readers will find guidance on the applications of all relevant imaging modalities and contrast media. Analogies and differences between forensic and clinical imaging are highlighted, and it is explained what lessons forensic imaging holds for clinical radiology, and vice versa. The remainder of the book comprehensively documents the typical “normal” post-mortem findings and the imaging presentations in various forms of trauma and nontraumatic forensic cases, including those in which medical liability may be an issue. The authors are radiologists and forensic radiologists from across the world who have extensive experience in post-mortem imaging. The book is primarily intended for forensic pathologists, radiologists, and radiographers seeking practical information on forensic imaging, but it will also be of interest to others, such as lawyers, who encounter this specialty during their professional activities. 

Dr. med. Fabrice Dedouit is a French radiologist, forensic pathologist at the Rangueil-Larrey Toulouse Hospital (France). He studied Medicine at the University of Caen, Lille, and Toulouse (France). He started his radiology residency in 2000 and forensic pathology residency in 2004 at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). He received his M.D in 2004, his Ph.D. Thesis in Biological Anthropology in 2009, his Habilitation degree in 2011, and became Docent. His research activities are performed in the laboratory AMIS (Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis) at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). Since 2004 he published more than 110 publications and 16 chapters of books in the field of forensic radiology and forensic anthropology. He has been the head of the unit of forensic imaging and anthropology at the University Centre of Legal Medicine (CURML) Lausanne-Geneva from 2016 to 2019, and became Privat Docent in 2017 at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Since 2015, he is president of the French national research group on post mortem imaging (GRAVIT). He is involved and active in forensic imaging and particularly virtual autopsy and virtual anthropology since 2004.