Chemometric classification of gunshot residues based on energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis and inductively coupled plasma analysis with mass-spectrometric detection

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1028-1036

  Steffen, S ^a   Otto, M ^b   Niewoehner, L ^a   Barth, M ^a   Brozek Mucha, Z ^c   Biegstraaten, J ^d   Horvath R ^e  

^a Bundeskriminalamt   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

^d NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e Institute of Forensic Science   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Fast Fourier Transformation; GSR; ICP MS; Regularized discriminant analysis; SEM EDX

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEMODULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CHEMOMETRIC EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICLES; FORENSIC SCIENTIST; GUNSHOT RESIDUES; REGULARIZED DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SHOOTING DEVICE;

AMMUNITION;

EID: 34548613217     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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