title: MDCT analysis of projectile injury in forensic investigation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article illustrates the MDCT postmortem imaging features that have the potential to enhance forensic investigation and conventional autopsy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MDCT may guide, direct, or limit forensic autopsy in projectile injury cases, thereby eliminating the need for a complete invasive autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA. howard.harcke@us.army.mil
authors.forename: H Theodore
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Harcke
authors.forename: Angela D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Getz
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D044709:Forensic Ballistics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*