Post Mortem Imaging of the Fetus & Child A Comprehensive Guide

This book provides state of the art imaging and serves as a reference standard for anyone wanting to begin or improve their post mortem imaging in children. Divided into three parts, the book covers imaging principles and techniques, interpretation of post mortem imaging, and guidance on which imaging technique to use for which clinical scenarios.

This is an ideal book for researchers and clinical hospital staff using post mortem imaging for children, including pathologists, radiologists, radiographers, technicians, mortuary staff, fetal medicine & obstetricians, ITU staff, forensic imaging staff and pathologists.

Introduction.- Postmortem radiographs in the fetus and child.- Perinatal Post-mortem Ultrasound.- Postmortem Computed Tomography Technique.- Post-mortem MRI.- Advanced Imaging techniques.- Building a Pediatric Postmortem Imaging Service.- Normal post-mortem changes/basic findings.- childhood death.- Parental experience.- Imaging fetal death.- Perinatal Death.- Imaging in suspected physical abuse.- Imaging childhood death.- Integrating imaging.- Conclusions.

Owen Arthurs is Professor of Radiology at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH), and Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London UK. The two institutes (GOSH and ICH) form the largest concentration of children’s health research in Europe. 

He trained in Medicine at the University of Cambridge and was awarded a PhD in brain imaging in 2002, then trained in Paediatrics and Radiology in Cambridge, Paris and London before being appointed to GOSH in 2013. He has held prestigious research funding from the MRC and National Institute of Health & Care Research (NIHR), was the Royal College of Radiologists’ Roentgen Professor in 2016 and is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management. 

He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading clinical researchers in children’s imaging. He is internationally renowned for his ground-breaking work on post mortem imaging in children, improving the care of children after death through non-invasive autopsy. His team have researched and developed a novel clinical imaging service investigating causes of fetal death following miscarriage and stillbirth, and he is in demand as an expert witness for imaging in child abuse for the UK courts.