Cooling experiments using dummies covered by leaves

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-114

  Althaus, L ^a   Stuckradt S ^a   Henssge C ^a   Bajanowski, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling of a corpse; Corrective factor; Nomogram; Tegument of leaves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOLING; INTEGUMENT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF DEATH;

AUTOPSY; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MANIKINS; NOMOGRAMS; PLANT LEAVES; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TIME;

EID: 33846939799     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0108-8     Document Type: Article

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