Virtopsy

Virtopsy is a virtual alternative to a traditional autopsy, conducted with scanning and imaging technology. The name is a <a href="/facts/Portmanteau/d124JEbz">portmanteau</a> of "virtual" and "<a href="/facts/Autopsy/GzSXuCH2">autopsy</a>" and is a <a href="/facts/Trademark/B23H8IS0">trademark</a> registered to Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the <a href="/facts/University_of_Bern/abhVFDch">University of Bern</a>, <a href="/facts/Switzerland/LcGuxeTe">Switzerland</a>.
Dirnhofer has proposed virtopsy as a partial or complete replacement for traditional autopsy, and he has asserted that virtopsy fully satisfies the requirement that medical forensic findings provide “a complete and true picture of the object examined”.[This quote needs a citation] Furthermore, virtopsy is said to achieve the objective “that the pathologist’s report should ‘photograph’ with words so that the reader is able to follow his thoughts visually”.[This quote needs a citation]

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Virtopsy