Effect of Head Position on Facial Soft Tissue Depth Measurements Obtained Using Computed Tomography

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 147-152

  Caple, Jodi M ^a,b   Stephan, Carl N ^b   Gregory, Laura S ^a   Macgregor, Donna M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Craniofacial identification; Facial approximation; Facial reconstruction; Facial soft tissue thickness; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Frankfurt horizontal

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY POSITION; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HEAD; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACE; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; SKULL;

EID: 84939640471     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12896     Document Type: Article

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