Facial reconstruction: Soft tissue thickness values for South African black females

Forensic Science International

Volumn 206, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 215.e1-215.e7

  Cavanagh, D ^a   Steyn, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

CT scan measurements; Forensic Anthropology Population Data; Forensic facial reconstruction; Personal identification; Population specificity; Soft tissue thickness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL BONE; FACIES; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEGRO; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE DATABASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOFT TISSUE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79952443942     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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