Facial soft tissue depths in French adults: Variability, specificity and estimation

Forensic Science International

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 411.e1-411.e10

  Guyomarc'h, Pierre ^a,b   Santos, Frédéric ^a   Dutailly, Bruno ^a   Coqueugniot, Hélène ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Central Identification Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Craniofacial identification; Facial approximation; Facial reconstruction; Soft tissue thickness; TIVMI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACIAL SOFT TISSUE DEPTH; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRENCH LANGUAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TREND STUDY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL IDENTIFICATION; FACIAL APPROXIMATION; FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; SOFT TISSUE THICKNESS; TIVMI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; FACE; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880844868     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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