Pingie: HTTP:: Experts to Discuss Using CT and MRI in Autopsy Practices

HTTP:: Experts to Discuss Using CT and MRI in Autopsy Practices
--------
The Leicester Tigers Stadium conference, to be held at the Caterpillar Stand starting the 23rd of November, will be the first in the UK to witness discussions about the use of computed tomography (CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in conducting autopsies. Arguing the validity of this idea will be the University of Leicester Head of Forensic Pathology, Professor Guy Rutty. He will be one of the keynote speakers in this unusual conference, which promises to yield some interesting discussions about the usefulness of employing such advanced and expensive scan techniques on the dead. Rutty's qualifications make him one of the voices to be reckoned with in the field of forensic pathology. He is the former editor-in-chief of the respected scientific journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, and also the East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit chief forensic pathologist. “In modern times the use of CT and MRI has become an integral part of autopsy practice, in!
adults and children, throughout the world. As the role of these technologies is evolving, it has led to a substantial cultural change in the conduct of death investigations,” he says of his idea. “Increasingly, publications from overseas groups have heralded the prospect of virtual or near-virtual autopsy ex...
--------
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-to-Discuss-Using-CT-and-MRI-in-Autopsy-Practices-121971.shtml
--------
This e-mail was sent by Experiment23 Inc., located in New York, NY
10163. To not receive further e-mails, please visit
http://help.pingie.com