Forensic identification of blood in the presence of contaminations using raman microspectroscopy coupled with advanced statistics: Effect of sand, dust, and soil

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1141-1148

  Sikirzhytskaya, Aliaksandra ^a   Sikirzhytski, Vitali ^a   Mclaughlin, Gregory ^a   Lednev, Igor K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Blood spectroscopic signature; Contamination; Forensic science; Identification; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNATURE; CONTAMINATION; DUST; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; IDENTIFICATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BLOOD; BLOOD SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNATURE; CONTAMINATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; IDENTIFICATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DUST; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84883551075     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12248     Document Type: Article

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