Weapon identification using antemortem computed tomography with virtual 3D and rapid prototype modeling-A report in a case of blunt force head injury

Forensic Science International

Volumn 222, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages

  Woźniak, Krzysztof ^a   Rzepecka Woźniak, Ewa ^a   Moskała, Artur ^a   Pohl, Jerzy ^a   Latacz, Katarzyna ^b   Dybała, Bogdan ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b Jedrzej niadecki Hospital   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Forensic pathology; Mechanism of injury; Postmortem CT; Rapid prototyping; Tool identification

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SKULL FRACTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEAPON; WEAPON IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84865643794     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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