Magnetic resonance necropsy is offered routinely in University College London Hospitals

At a time when rates of necropsy not requested by a coroner have fallen to less than 10% for adults and about 50% for infants who die in the perinatal period (the most prognostically important age group for necropsy) magnetic resonance imaging offers an acceptable alternative. 4 Imaging diagnosis has become the established norm for the living (for example, abdominal computed tomographic scanning has almost entirely replaced diagnostic laparotomy).