Investigations on an isolated skull with gunshot wounds using flat-panel CT

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-445

  Verhoff, Marcel A ^a   Karger, Bernd ^b   Ramsthaler, Frank ^c   Obert, Martin ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

eLU CT; Flat panel CT; Forensic osteology; Gunshot wounds; Multislice computed tomography (MSCT); Skull

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 50849114501     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-008-0246-2     Document Type: Article

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