ATLAS OF POSTMORTEM ANGIOGRAPHY

1. Postmortem Imaging: Development and Historical Review
2. Postmortem Imaging: A Part of Forensic Medicine
3. Postmortem Imaging: A Transdisciplinary Approach for Objectified Knowledge
4. Postmortem Angiography: A Historical Review
5. Postmortem Angiography and the Thanatology of the Vascular System
6. Computed Tomography: The Revolution in Postmortem Angiography
7. Postmortem Whole Body CT Angiography Using Aqueous Contrast Agent
8. Targeted Coronary Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography
9. Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography Using Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Technique: Contrast Media Injection with Chest Compression Immediately After Death
10. Multiphase Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography (MPMCTA)
11. Anatomy of the Head in Postmortem Angiography
12. Anatomy of the Neck in Postmortem Angiography
13. Anatomy of the Heart and Lungs in Postmortem Angiography
14. The Vascular System: Aorta and the Branches, Vena Cava and the Branches
15. Gastrointestinal Tract
16. Abdominal Organs
17. Vascular System: Upper Extremities
18. Vascular System: Lower Extremities
19. Radiologic Artefacts of Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography
20. Cardiac Pathology
21. Vascular Pathology
22. Systemic Diseases, Sepsis, Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
23. Gastrointestinal Pathology
24. Postmortem Angiography and Clinical Pathology
25. Postmortem Angiography After Invasive Surgery
26. Blunt Trauma
27. Sharp Trauma
28. Gunshot Trauma
29. Histology After Postmortem Angiography
30. Complementary Analysis After Postmortem Angiography
31. Postmortem CT Angiography on Altered Bodies
32. Postmortem Angiography for Medical Education
33. The Use of Postmortem Angiography in Clinical Anatomy
34. Advantages of Postmortem Angiography in the Daily Routine of Legal Medicine
35. How to Create a Functional Imaging Team
36. Future Prospects of Forensic Imaging
37. The Technical Working Group Postmortem Angiography Methods (TWGPAM)

This atlas of postmortem angiography provides a summary of techniques that have been developed and used in order to visualize the human vascular system. The indications, advantages, limitations, and pitfalls of the different techniques are explained in detail through the use of examples from real cases and a wealth of informative images, as well as knowledge from the latest scientific works. Helpful recommendations are made concerning interpretation of the obtained radiological images, which will allow readers to start their own work in the field of post-mortem angiography or to ease and improve their practice. The atlas has been edited and written by members of an international working group created in 2012, “Technical Working Group Post-mortem Angiography Methods” (TWGPAM), who for the first time summarize their experiences concerning this new approach. Since findings explaining the reasons for both natural and traumatic death are often hidden within the vascular system, post-mortem angiography is of the highest importance in elucidating cause of death and may represent the key to minimally invasive autopsy.

Features
• Provides a detailed summary of techniques developed to visualize the human vascular system
• Explains the indications, advantages, limitations, and pitfalls of the different techniques
• Makes helpful recommendations on image interpretation Presents examples from real cases and a wealth of informative images

Authors
• Silke Grabherr, University Center of Legal Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Jochen Grimm, University Hospital Vaudois, Department of Legal Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Axel Heinemann, University Hospital Hamburg- Eppendorf, Department of Legal Medicine, Hamburg, Germany