Detection of smuggled cocaine in cargo using MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1390-1395

  Grabherr, Silke ^a,b   Ross, Steffen ^a   Regenscheit, Priska ^a   Werner, Bernhard ^a   Oesterhelweg, Lars ^a   Bolliger, Stephan ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cocaine; CT; Drug screening; Drug smuggling; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED WINE; SCREENING;

COCAINE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; PRODUCT PACKAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLUTIONS; STREET DRUGS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPORTATION; WINE;

EID: 43649085918     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3048     Document Type: Article

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