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Fig. 6 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 6

From: Burned bodies: post-mortem computed tomography, an essential tool for modern forensic medicine

Fig. 6

A 32-year-old man who was shot dead, burned and buried in a field. a-c Metallic artefact of the bullet within the cervical canal (thick black arrow) opposing the second cervical vertebra (C2). View of the gunshot entry wound in the occipital bone (white arrow) with a downward trajectory through the first cervical vertebra, which is fractured (black dashed arrow). The bone fractures allow for a reliable bullet trajectory reconstruction. d Autopsy photograph of the same body guided by the PMCT with the bullet in the cervical canal (white dashed arrow)

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