Dating the time of birth: A radiocarbon calibration curve for human eye-lens crystallines

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1303-1306

  Kjeldsen, Henrik ^a   Heinemeier, Jan ^a   Heegaard, Steffen ^b   Jacobsen, Christina ^b   Lynnerup, Niels ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

14C; Biomedicine; Bomb pulse; Calibration; Forensic; Time of birth

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HUMAN EYE; PULSE CALIBRATION; RADIOCARBON AGE; RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CALIBRATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

LENSES;

EID: 77949876731     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.158     Document Type: Article

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