The evaluation of a new technology for gunshot residue (GSR) analysis in the field

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8726, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hondrogiannis, Ellen ^a   Andersen, Danielle ^a   Miziolek, Andrzej W ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Elemental fingerprinting; Forensics; Gunshot residue (GSR) analysis; Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTAL FINGERPRINTING; FORENSICS; GUNSHOT RESIDUE; INORGANIC COMPONENTS; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MATCHING MATERIALS; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS;

AMMUNITION; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INORGANIC CHEMICALS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; MANUFACTURE; PROPELLANTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84881148483     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2017900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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