Applicability of emanating volatile organic compounds from various forensic specimens for individual differentiation

Forensic Science International

Volumn 226, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 173-182

  Brown, Jessica S ^a   Prada, Paola A ^a   Curran, Allison M ^a   Furton, Kenneth G ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological specimens; Forensic chemistry; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Solid phase micro extraction (SPME); Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SAMPLE; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

EID: 84875588049     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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