Fig. 2

PMCT technical difficulties with burned bodies. a Coronal plane reconstruction of the charred body of a 58-year-old man found deceased in his burned car (suicide). Note the important tissue loss of this severely burned body with multiple bone fragments brought in a separate cadaver pouch for the CT scan (white arrow). In this difficult case, the victim’s body fragments must be differentiated from foreign-body contamination during the corpse removal process. b An 89-year-old man, killed in an accidental fire initiated from a miscontrolled fireplace at his home. The body contours were difficult to appreciate through the cadaver pouch and the burned body was initially put in a wrong position (procubitus) on the CT table. Note the extensive burn lesions of the directly fire-exposed bones conveying marked mottled lucencies in the marrow bone spaces (white dashed arrow)