Accident or homicide - Virtual crime scene reconstruction using 3D methods

Forensic Science International

Volumn 225, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Buck, Ursula ^a,b   Naether, Silvio ^a,b   Räss, Beat ^c   Jackowski, Christian ^d   Thali, Michael J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Canton Police Bern   (Switzerland)

^c Forensic Science Service   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D modelling; 3D optical scanning; Crime scene reconstruction; Forensic science; Laser scanning; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84873745384     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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