Estimating age by assessing the ossification degree of cranial sutures with the aid of Flat-Panel-CT

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Harth, Sebastian ^a   Obert, Martin ^a   Ramsthaler, Frank ^b   Reuß, Christina ^a   Traupe, Horst ^a   Verhoff, Marcel A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age determination; Cranial suture; Flat Panel CT; Forensic osteology; Identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALVARIA; CRANIAL SUTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSSIFICATION; SKELETON; SKULL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSEOINTEGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349257802     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.091     Document Type: Article

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