Hounsfield Units ranges in CT-scans of bog bodies and mummies

Anthropologischer Anzeiger

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-145

  Villa, Chiara ^a   Lynnerup, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D; Mummification; Radiodensity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN; STANDARD; TOOTH; WETLAND;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BONE AND BONES; BURIAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MUMMIES; MUSCLES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH; WETLANDS;

EID: 84861655788     PISSN: 00035548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0139     Document Type: Article

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