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Computed tomography imaging for the characterisation of drugs with radiation density measurements and HU spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Dominik Sieroń,
Moritz Steib,
Dominik Suter,
Verena Carola Obmann,
A Huber,
Lukas Ebner,
Daniel Inderbitzin,
Andreas Christe
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
swiss medical weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1424-7860
pISSN - 1424-3997
DOI - 10.4414/smw.2018.14585
Subject(s) - hounsfield scale , medicine , nuclear medicine , repeatability , tomography , radiology , computed tomography , chemistry , chromatography
Our data suggest that measuring the attenuation of drugs on CT images, including the homogeneity, and applying CT spectroscopy can narrow down possible identities of the most frequently medications. Other clinicians and forensic pathologists can perform this easy measurement, as the intra- and inter-reader variability is very small.

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