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Chris O'Donnell

MB BS, FRANZCR, M.Med, GradDipForMed, FFFPMI (RCPA)

Chris is a specialist necroradiologist and consultant forensic radiologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), and adjunct senior lecturer, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University.  He also works as a clinical radiologist.  He installed one of the world’s first mortuary-based CT scanners at VIFM in 2005 and was lead radiologist in the Black Saturday bushfire DVI operation in 2009.  He has trained many local and international forensic pathologists and radiologists in post-mortem CT (PMCT).

Chris is convenor of an annual short course in PMCT interpretation for Monash University that has now become a unit of the Monash University Master of Forensic Medicine programme.  He provides expert opinion on forensic matters to the criminal justice system of Victoria and other states of Australia. He is past chair of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging, and is currently overseeing the installation of an MRI scanner into the mortuary at VIFM.

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Metastatic prostate cancer to Pagetoid bone - value of (Ga68)PSMA scan

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 Dec 2016
95% complete
Nuclear medicine MRI CT
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FDG PET positive benign peripheral Schwannoma

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 17 Feb 2016
89% complete
Nuclear medicine Ultrasound MRI
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Multiple stress fractures - army recruit

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 20 Jun 2015
91% complete
Nuclear medicine
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Insufficiency fracture of the sternum

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 14 Jun 2015
95% complete
Nuclear medicine CT
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Fat necrosis right buttock

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 27 Feb 2015
81% complete
MRI CT Nuclear medicine
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Metastasis to the patella: carcinoma of the lung

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 16 Jan 2015
75% complete
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Exuberant sclerotic metastasis - prostate cancer

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 19 Dec 2014
75% complete
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Chondrosarcoma of the scapula

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 29 Aug 2014
62% complete
CT Ultrasound Nuclear medicine
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Sclerotic metastases from carcinoma of the prostate

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 26 Jul 2014
73% complete
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Osteomyelitis - Tc99m MDP SPECT/CT

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 16 Feb 2014
79% complete
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Melanoma metastases

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 12 Feb 2014
79% complete
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Metastatic small cell lung cancer to bone - false negative CT lumbar spine

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 29 Dec 2013
89% complete
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Thoracic endplate osteomyelitis/discitis - false positive FDG PET scan

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 25 Jun 2012
68% complete
Nuclear medicine MRI
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Transient bone marrow edema of the hip

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 10 May 2012
73% complete
Nuclear medicine MRI
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Medial tibial stress syndrome

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 20 Apr 2012
63% complete
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Subtalar osteoarthritis post ankle fusion

  Diagnosis certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 28 Mar 2012
86% complete
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March fracture

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 18 Mar 2012
65% complete
Nuclear medicine X-ray
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Insufficiency fracture distal tibia

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 18 Mar 2012
72% complete
X-ray Nuclear medicine
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Stress fracture of the 3rd metatarsal

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 20 Feb 2012
69% complete
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Bone metastasis - breast cancer

  Diagnosis almost certain
Chris O'Donnell
Published 08 Feb 2012
70% complete
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Aneurysmal bone cyst - sacrum

  Diagnosis probable
Chris O'Donnell
Published 03 Feb 2012
50% complete
X-ray Nuclear medicine MRI

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