Simulating irradiation power density on body surface in postmortem cooling

Legal Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-140

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Irradiation; Postmortem cooling; Time since death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CADAVER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COOLING; GEOMETRY; IRRADIATION; RADIATION ENERGY; SIMULATION; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME OF DEATH;

BODY TEMPERATURE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEATING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 1642306343     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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