Magnetic resonance necropsy is offered routinely in University College London Hospitals

EDITOR—Bisset suggests that magnetic resonance imaging might be an alternative to necropsy.1 The first public presentation of work specifically assessing the use of magnetic resonance imaging as an alternative to necropsy was given by two of us (JASB, WRL) in 1995 (abstract presented at Radiological Society …

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