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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Imaging The Dead
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:27:45 -0000

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https://rcr.ac.uk/docs/general/pdf/Imaging_the_Dead_Dec_2009.pdf

Imaging The Dead

by Dr Giles Maskell on Behalf of the Royal College of Radiologists


The College has received a number of enquiries from radiologists who have been 
approached

to assist pathologists or Coroners by performing and interpreting imaging 
investigations

performed after death. In the past, when post-mortem imaging involved only plain
film studies

performed for forensic purposes such as the identification of foreign bodies or 
comparison

with dental records, radiologists have not usually been directly involved in 
this process.

However, the increasing application of cross-sectional imaging techniques 
including CT and

MRI has led to requests for radiologists to become involved in this new area of 
practice.

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The first study to attempt validation by comparison of

CT/MR findings with conventional autopsy in a series of adult patients is 
currently being

undertaken in the UK and is expected to report late in 2010. Until that time 
radiologists who

are not participating in this research and who are not able to demonstrate that 
their

interpretation has been compared with conventional autopsy can only offer very 
limited help
without exposing themselves to significant risks.

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My comment:


It is unfortunate that yet again a medical professional (the radiologist) is 
being put at personal risk by the legal profession if he were to assist a 
cryonics patient. 


However one can be optimistic about the fact that research is being done and 
maybe by the time anyone in the UK needs cryopreservation to save his life that 
the lawyers will accept sufficient correlation between radiology and dissection 
to accept radiology as sufficient post mortem examination.


If this does happen in the UK, it is likely that legal professionals in other 
civilised nations will have to follow suit.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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