3D bloodstain pattern analysis: Ballistic reconstruction of the trajectories of blood drops and determination of the centres of origin of the bloodstains

Forensic Science International

Volumn 206, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 22-28

  Buck, Ursula ^a,b   Kneubuehl, Beat ^a   Näther, Silvio ^a,b   Albertini, Nicola ^c   Schmidt, Lars ^d   Thali, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Canton Police Bern   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Blécherette   (Switzerland)

^d Forensic Service   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ballistics; Blood drop trajectory reconstruction; Blood stain pattern analysis; Computer assisted three dimensional imaging; Photogrammetry; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD STAIN; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL BLOOD STAIN PATTERN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952439766     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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