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Book:

Paleoradiology: Imaging Mummies and Fossils. Heidelberg, Springer, 2008
Rethy Chhem, Don R. Brothwell


Selected articles: Paleoradiology and History of Medicine

Karlik SJ, Bartha R, Kennedy K, Chhem R. MRI and multinuclear MR spectroscopy of 3,200-year-old Egyptian mummy brain.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Aug;189(2):W105-10.
 
Chhem RK. La médecine au service du pouvoir angkorien : Universités monastiques, transmission du savoir et formation médicale sous le règne de Jayavarman VII (1181-1220 A.D.). Canadian J. Buddhist Studies, no 3, 2007, 95-124

Chhem RK. Paleoradiology: imaging disease in mummies and ancient skeletons.
Skeletal Radiol. 2006 Nov;35(11):803-4.

Chhem RK. La medicine angkorienne sous Jayavarman VII (1181-1220).  Bulletin de l’Academie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres, MMVI, 2006, 163-184

Chhem RK, Woo JK, Pakkiri P, Stewart E, Romagnoli C, Garcia B. CT imaging of wet specimens from a pathology museum: How to build a "virtual museum" for radiopathological correlation teaching.  Homo. 2006;57(3):201-8.

Vacher-Lavenue MC, Abelabet R, Chhem RC. Dupuytren Museum of pathology. Wellcome History, no 32, 2006, 18

Chhem RK. Bhaisajyaguru and Tantric Medicine in Jayavarman VII Hospitals. Siksacakr, no7, 2005, 8-18

Chhem RK. A Khmer Medical Text: “The Treatment of the Four Diseases”
Manuscript. Siksacakr, no 6, 2005, 33-44

Chhem RK, Schmit P, Fauré C. Did Ramesses II really have ankylosing spondylitis? A reappraisal.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):211-7.
 
Chhem RK. Buddhist medicine in Angkor. Wellcome History, no 27, 2004, 6-7.
 
Rühli FJ, Chhem RK, Böni T. Diagnostic paleoradiology of mummified tissue: interpretation and pitfalls.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):218-27.
 
McErlain DD, Chhem RK, Bohay RN, Holdsworth DW. Micro-computed tomography of a 500-year-old tooth: technical note.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):242-5.
 
Chhem RK, Venkatesh SK, Wang SC, Wong KM, Rühli FJ, Siew EP, Latinis K, Pottier C.
Multislice computed tomography of two 2000-year-old skeletons in a soil matrix from Angkor, Cambodia. Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):235-41. No abstract available.
 
Böni T, Rühli FJ, Chhem RK. History of paleoradiology: early published literature, 1896-1921.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):203-10. No abstract available.
 
Chhem RK, Rühli FJ. Paleoradiology: current status and future challenges.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2004 Oct;55(4):198-9. No abstract available.
 
Zoppi U, Barbetti M, Chhem RK et al.  The Contribution of 14C AMS Dating to the Greater Angkor Archaeological Project.  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 2004, 223-4:681-685.
 
Venkatesh SK, Chhem RK, Wang SC et al.  Malunited Supracondylar Fracture of the Femur in a 2000 Year-Old Human Skeleton From Prei Khmeng, Angkor.  UDAYA, Cambodia, 2004, 5:33-37
 
Chhem RK. Historiography of Khmer Medicine. Wellcome History June 2003, 23:11-13.

Chhem RK. History of Khmer Medicine, Osteoarchaeology and Angkor, Wellcome History June 2002, 20:18-20.

Chhem RK. Ancient Khmer Medical Theories: Impact on Nosology.  Siksacakr  (Bulletin of the Center for Khmer Studies-Cambodia) July 2001, 3:12-15.

Mohanan M, Chhem RK. Medicine in the Cambodian Ramayana. The Singapore Biochemist July 2001, (14)2:5-8.

Chhem RK. Construction du Savoir Anatomique dans le Cambodge Ancien. Revue des Practiciens du Cambodge (J of Medicine in Cambodia) September 2001, (5)3:20-26.

Chhem RK. Health and Hygiene in Ancient Cambodia: The Khmer and its Environment. Revue des Practiciens du Cambodge (J of Medicine in Cambodia) June 2000, (4)2:19-26.

Chhem RK. Medicine and Culture in Ancient Cambodia. The Singapore Biochemist March 2000, (13):23-27.