Automatic continuous monitoring of rectal temperature using a button-type thermo data logger

Legal Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 226-230

  Kanetake, Jun ^a   Kanawaku, Yoshimasa ^a   Funayama, Masato ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy case; Button type thermo data logger; Rectal temperature; Time of death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MONITOR; RECTUM; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME OF DEATH; VALIDITY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RECTUM; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33746273420     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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