Circumventing substrate interference in the Raman spectroscopic identification of blood stains

Forensic Science International

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 157-166

  McLaughlin, Gregory ^a   Sikirzhytski, Vitali ^a   Lednev, Igor K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood detection; Forensic science; Raman spectroscopy; Statistical analysis; Substrate interference

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD STAIN; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; CRIME; DIODE LASER; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; LASER EXCITATION; MICROSCOPE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN MICROSCOPE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SUBSTRATE INTERFERENCE; TEXTILE FIBER;

EID: 84878841282     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.04.033     Document Type: Article

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