Citations:virtopsy

Noun: "a noninvasive autopsy performed through medical imaging technology"

 * 2004 — Jessica Snyder Sachs, "Why give a dead man a body scan?", Popular Science, October 2004:
 * Thali calls the technique "virtopsy," or virtual autopsy. Specifically, his research team has adapted the twin medical-imaging technologies of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create three-dimensional, high-resolution computer images of a crime victim's internal organs.
 * 2004 — Ryan Bigge, "Virtopsy", New York Times Magazine, 12 December 2004:
 * Thali and his colleagues have already performed more than 100 virtopsies, with each virtual analysis confirmed by an actual autopsy afterward.
 * 2009 — Paul Marks, "Industrial robot hones virtual autopsies", New Scientist, 27 October 2009:
 * The researchers are already pioneers of virtual autopsies, or "virtopsies", which use non-invasive imaging of a body inside and out rather than the radical post-mortem surgery typically used to determine cause of death.
 * 2009 — Catherine Bosley, "Swiss doctors develop incision-less autopsies", Reuters, 25 November 2009:
 * Michael Thali, a professor at the University of Berne, and his colleagues have developed a system called "virtopsy," which since 2006 has been used to examine all sudden deaths or those of unnatural causes in the Swiss capital.
 * 2010 — Laura Spinney, "'Virtual autopsy' catches a killer", New Zealand Herald, 31 May 2010:
 * Other forensic pathology laboratories around the world have introduced imaging techniques into their autopsy procedures, but the Bern operation - which performed its 100th virtopsy last year - is by far the most advanced.
 * 2011 — Jay Kalra, Medical Errors and Patient Safety: Strategies to Reduce and Disclose Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety, De Gruyter (2011), ISBN 9783110249491, page 99:
 * An autopsy that does not penetrate the body in any way, known as a virtopsy, can be performed via the use of MRI and multislice CT scans.
 * 2011 — Larry Derfner, "Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox dead get proper burial", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 22 November 2011:
 * "If you use the MRI together with the CT scan, toxicological tests and tissue sampling, you can get results almost as precise as from an autopsy," Israel's chief coroner says. "This is the wave of the future — autopsy by non-invasive means, or 'virtopsy,' as it's called."