Modelling postmortem surface cooling in continuously changing environmental temperature

Legal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 164-173

  Mall, Gita ^a   Hubig, Michael ^a   Eckl, Mona ^a   Büttner, Andreas ^a   Eisenmenger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change of ambient temperature; Model; Skin cooling; Time since death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; RECTUM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME OF DEATH; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036732497     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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