Fig. 16

Normal appearances of the liver and spleen in a 19-week gestational-aged foetus following miscarriage, imaged 6 days after death. The transverse postmortem ultrasound imaging (a) through the upper abdomen demonstrates a very similar echogenicity of the liver with the spleen (white arrow). The differences between the two organs is much better seen at T2-weighted postmortem MRI (b), where both organs demonstrate different signal intensities