Application of postmortem 3D-CT facial reconstruction for personal identification

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1624-1629

  Sakuma, Ayaka ^a   Ishii, Masuko ^b   Yamamoto, Seiji ^a   Shimofusa, Ryota ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Motani, Hisako ^a   Hayakawa, Mutsumi ^a   Yajima, Daisuke ^a   Takeichi, Hisako ^a   Iwase, Hirotaro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Forensic diagnosis; Forensic science; Postmortem images; Superimposition; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; CASE REPORT; DROWNING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BURNS; DROWNING; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MUMMIES; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 78149291016     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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