Analysis of pathological and non-pathological human skeletal remains by FT-IR spectroscopy

Forensic Science International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-60

  Nagy, Gergely ^a   Lorand, Tamas ^a   Patonai, Zoltan ^a   Montsko, Gergely ^a   Bajnoczky, Istvan ^a   Marcsik, Antonia ^b   Mark, Laszlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Crystallinity index; Dating; FT IR; Infrared spectroscopy; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGENESIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 38649090729     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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