Digital forensic osteology-Possibilities in cooperation with the Virtopsy® project

Forensic Science International

Volumn 174, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 152-156

  Verhoff, Marcel A ^a   Ramsthaler, Frank ^b   Krähahn, Jonathan ^c   Deml, Ulf ^d   Gille, Ralf J ^a   Grabherr, Silke ^e   Thali, Michael J ^e   Kreutz, Kerstin ^c,f  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f Institute of Forensic Anthropology   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Forensic osteology; Multislice computed tomography; Osteometry; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE; VIRTOPSY;

EID: 37749018077     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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