Emerging spectrometric techniques for the forensic analysis of body fluids

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-63

  Zapata, Félix ^a   Fernández de la Ossa, Ma Ángeles ^a   García Ruiz, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood; Body fluid; Forensics; Infrared; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Raman; Semen; Spectrometry; Ultraviolet visible; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY;

FORENSICS; RAMAN; SEMEN; ULTRAVIOLET-VISIBLE; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

BODY FLUIDS;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD STAIN; BODY FLUID; DNA EXTRACTION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY; SWEAT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; URINALYSIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84910655005     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.08.011     Document Type: Review

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