Ossification Degrees of cranial sutures determined with flat-panel computed tomography: Narrowing the age estimate with extrema

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 690-694

  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 by skeleton; Cranial sutures; Flat panel CT; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL SUTURE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOGENESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951128688     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01342.x     Document Type: Article

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