Intuitive presentation of clinical forensic data using anonymous and person-specific 3D reference manikins

Forensic Science International

Volumn 241, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-166

  Urschler, Martin ^a,b   Höller, Johannes ^a   Bornik, Alexander ^a,b   Paul, Tobias ^c   Giretzlehner, Michael ^d   Bischof, Horst ^b   Yen, Kathrin ^e   Scheurer, Eva ^a,f  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D imaging; 3D reconstruction; Case presentation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MANIKINS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902594578     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.05.017     Document Type: Article

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