Medical Professionals’ Perspective on Virtual Autopsy: Comprehensive Analysis and Validation Study with Respect to Traditional Autopsy

Abstract

Virtual autopsy is a specialized technique of postmortem examination where in radiological imagingtechniques are used to scan body of dead to make opinion regarding cause of death and other valuables. It isperformed independently or with traditional autopsy. There are numerous advantages of this technique overtraditional autopsy. Due to technical and organizational problem, virtual autopsy service is not commonlyin use in developing countries. In our study we have collected responses of medical professionals throughquestionnaires based on virtual autopsy facts, techniques, advantage, and disadvantage in comparison totraditional autopsy (TA). Results are heartening to know that most of the participants are well aware of thefact of our study objectives but more awareness is needed to promote this important aspect of medicolegaland forensic medicine practice to minimize time, energy and risk due to COVID 19 pandemic and otherfactors.