A Brief History of Forensic Radiology

Abstract

During the last two decades, forensic radiology showed, as never before, a rapid, widely diffuse, and substantial change in the legal, medical, anthropological, archaeological, and scientific approach to applications of forensic radiology itself.

It is a forced marriage. On the one hand, we are facing a forensic science that needs careful, objective, and reproducible evaluation of the various aspects of life, including the fatal event, of its causes, and of the consequent body changes.

On the other hand, the radiological imaging is itself an accurate, objective, reproducible, and particularly advanced science, and it is easily applicable to the different aspects of the human body assessment.