Patterns of the most abundant volatiles detected in post-mortem blood

Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-154

  Boumba, Vassiliki A ^a   Kourkoumelis, Nikolaos ^a   Ziavrou, Kallirroe S ^a   Fragkouli, Kleio ^a   Vougiouklakis, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

1 propanol; Autopsy; Blood; Clustering; Manner of death; Post mortem; Principal component analysis (PCA); Putrefaction; Volatile

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ACETALDEHYDE; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; PROPANOL; VOLATILE AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84863463336     PISSN: 12218618     EISSN: 18448585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4323/rjlm.2012.147     Document Type: Article

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