Talk:Virtopsy

Vipulvira For human eye visible thing are due to reflection of visible light from object sense by retina and perceived as vision based on their visual cortex interpretation. It can real as produced by actual reflection from object or virtual as generated from back projection. In radiology x ray image generated from human object based on attenuation and transmission of x ray from body tissue. Human eye does not sense the x ray and that’s why radiology use conversion method from x ray to visible light in the form of x ray film, detector. So though rules of optics can be applied to x ray we cannot say x ray image as virtual and it should be labeled as virtual autopsy(talk) 18:27, 14 December 2016 (UTC)Virtual Autopsy which has called Virtopsy has a scientific and technological background. Scientific because of autopsy and related forensic medicine and technological due to virtual or digital characteristics. Actually for all of virtual contents we need a digitized material. The same as digital library and virtual library. Digital Autopsy is a software based procedure utilizing the power of imaging and visualization to conduct autopsy on a digital body generated using raw data from whole body scanning by Multi-Slice Computerized Tomography (MSCT) and High Performance Computing System. Digital Autopsy provides three-dimensional capabilities to view and dissect inside and outside of the digital body in high definition visuals. --Jahedif (talk) 04:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Comment 1: Virtopsy is not a new way to "conduct autopsies" but, in fact, a high-tech toolbox to massively expand the technical repertoire of the forensic pathologist. As all medical procedures, virtopsy procedures have advantages, cost, side effects and may even cause damage in that findings are damaged after conducting the procedure. One example is post mortem angiography. After angiography, toxicological analysis or microbiological culture of what remains in the blood vessels is essentially non-sensical. Also, trying to "simply replace autopsy" is non sensical in that it denies the very essence of actual forensic pathology - provide documentation for specific problems. If these problems base on such finding as Tardieu spots or Paltauf spots, Wischnewski hemorrhages and the like, then the method fails just as it is not 100% percent sensitive and often far from being specific enough. It means that without a true understanding of the tension field between investigation, prosecution and defense, it is not recommended to do away with the conventional autopsy. Instead I recommend to stay very close to original texts in relation to the Virtopsy definition that more than "minimally invasive autopsies" (a term that shows the author/s did not really understand "auto"-"opsein" - see for yourself: you can never see for yourself in such a minimally invasive way that technically tries to avoid just that), new horizons in forensic medicine are opened by combining forensic pathologic knowledge with high tech imaging (Reference: Thali et al. (2003) Virtopsy, a New Imaging Horizon in Forensic Pathology: Virtual Autopsy by Postmortem Multislice Computed Tomography (MSCT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)—a Feasibility Study, J Forensic Sci, Mar. 2003, Vol. 48, No. 2). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.60.34.131 (talk) 15:14, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Comment 2: What is the exact rationale to list so many German books at the bottom of what essentially appears to be a mostly English Wikipedia page? I believe the list will also have to be edited to offer more accessible content related to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.60.34.131 (talk) 06:47, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Comment 3: I think that for a topic like Virtopsy, this has to be a really visual page or some equipment being shown. This page could also show times when these machines have been used and where they are located.Will1858 (talk) 23:59, 30 January 2017 (UTC)