Fatal obstructive asphyxia: trans-pulmonary density gradient characteristic as relevant identifier in postmortem CT

Conclusions: Within a more narrowly defined collective of obstructive asphyxia, pulmonary PMCT data appears to contain sufficient information to reach a relatively high level of discrimination. This questions the value of an exclusively death scene focused decision making for further investigations and may justify a wider use of PMCT. Conversely, obstructive asphyxia remains difficult to diagnose conclusively based on PMCT alone.
Source: Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging - Category: Radiology Source Type: research