Scientific Papers
Over the last 10 years, the Virtopsy team has published around 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
ZORA
Click here for ZORA repository (University of Zurich)
[current list of ~100]
Pubmed
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[current list of ~100]
Click here for a list of all Pubmed listed articles
Scopus
Click here for a list of all Scopus listed articles
Google Scholar
Click here for a Google Scholar search
Books
Gil Brogdon”s standard textbook “Brogdon’s Forensic Radiology” (CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA, 2nd ed. 2010) which was edited by Gil Brodon, Michael Thali and Mark Viner provides an excellent overview of forensic radiology and features several chapters on Virtopsy.Click here to order the book online through Amazon.com
The textbook “The Virtopsy Approach” (CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA, 1st ed. 2009) which was edited by Michael Thali, Richard Dirnhofer and Peter Vock provides in-depth information on forensic imaging.Click here to order the book online through Amazon.com
News articles
- Virtual reality and postmortem imaging bring crime scenes
‘to life’ (Aunt Minnie, 1.3.2023) View this article [English] - Virtopsy Health Management, 05/21/2014 View this article / article with references
- Interview mit Michael Thali Siemens Monitor, 02/2014 View this article (german)
- How high-tech approach may reshape the autopsy View this article
- Virtobot Autonomous Autopsy System Scans Bodies, Analyzes for Abnormalities View this article
- Maschinen entlarven Mörder Tagesanzeiger, 02/22/2013 View this article (german)
- Forensics Revolution: Virtual Autopsies Provide New Insights into Death Spiegel online, 01/04/2013 View this article
- Roboter nimmt Leichen unter die Lupe View this article (german)
- Sezieren ohne Skalpell – Neuartige 3-D-Software ermöglicht virtuelle Anatomiepräparate und Autopsien NZZ online, 04/18/2012 View this article (german)
- Virtuelle obduktioner erstatter skalpellen Ingenioren, 03/10/2012 View this article (danish)
- Wie kann man eine Leiche untersuchen, ohne sie aufzuschneiden? Welt der Wunder, 01/12 View this article (german)
- Forensische Bildgebung, Obduktion am Computer Laborjournal, 12/2011 View this article (german)
- Virtopsy “Die unblutige Obduktion” Nachrichtenblatt Kantonspolizei Zürich, 5/2011 View this article (german)
- Virtopsy CGWORLD, 4/2011 View this article (japanese)
- Hightech in der Gerichtsmedizin: Virtopsy Spurensicherung – bitte übernehmen! Samariter, 04/2011 View this article (german)
- Virtuelle Autopsie – Der Schnitt durch den Menschen 01/201 View this article (german)
- Virtopsy-Bildgebung in der Rechtsmedizin Swiss Review of Military and Disaster Medicine, 01/2010 View this article (german)
- Un robot pour la medicine legale MSM Le Mensuel de l’industrie, 08/04/2010 View this article (french)
- Virtuelle Beweise vor Gericht Aargauer Zeitung, 07/18/2010 View this article (german)
- Body of evidence: A radical new approach to forensic pathology The Independent, 05/31/2010 View this article
- Tout est clair, M. le Commissaire medicine & technique, 02/2010 View this article (french)
- Tutto chiaro, signor commissario medicina & technica, 02/2010 View this article (italian)
- Alles klar, Herr Kommissar medizin & technik, 03/2010 View this article (german)
- Virtobot scanner performs ”virtual autopsies”, no body-slicing necessary Engadget, 03/22/2010 View this article
- Virtobot Performs Virtual Autopsies medGadget, 03/19/2010 View this article
- Gerichtsmediziner erproben virtuelle Leichenschau Focus Online, 03/12/2010 View this article (german) Virtueller Leichenöffner Handelsblatt, 03/11/2010 View this article (german)
- Robot performs virtual autopsies Swiss National Science Foundation, 03/10/2010 View this article
- Es braucht den kriminalistischen Spürsinn (Interview with Prof. M.J. Thali) Trialog/The Salvation Army, 02/2010 View this article (german)
- Virtopsy: autopsy without the scalpel Telegraph, 11/25/2009 View this article
- Roboter als Pathologe Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11/22/2009 View this article (german)
- Virtopsies The New York Times, 10/30/2009 View this article
- Robotic pathologist performs precise, clean autopsies on humans Popular Science, 10/27/2009 View this article
- With robot-performed virtual autopsies, your corpse gets a stunt double Gizmodo, 10/27/2009 View this article
- Industrial robot hones virtual autopsies NewScientist, 10/27/2009 View this article
- USA setzen auf Berner Forensik Tagesanzeiger, 06/03/2009 View this article (german)
- Laser gegen Mörder Der Spiegel, 06/18/2007 View this article (german)
- Die virtuelle Zukunft der Toten Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 04/24/2007 View this article (german)
- Leichen auf CD-Rom – Die “virtuelle Autopsie” revolutioniert die Rechtsmedizin: Statt das Skalpell zu schwingen, durchleuchten die Ärzte die Toten Der Spiegel, 05/30/2005 View this article (german)
- Year in ideas – Virtopsy The New York Times, 12/12/2004 View this article
- Why give a dead man a body scan? Popular Science, 10/16/2004 View this article
- Autopsy minus the scalpel USA Today, 3/22/2004 View this article
- Forensic radiology makes virtual autopsy a reality RSNA, 12/3/2003 View this article
3D-printable materials
- Post-mortem CT-angiography (PMCTA)-related materials [link]
