Validation of post mortem dental CT for disaster victim identification

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-30

  Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b,c   Thali, Yannick A ^a,d   Rashid, Saiful N A ^e,f   Mund, Michael T ^a,g   Thali, Michael J ^a   Hatch, Gary M ^h   Christensen, Angi M ⁱ   Somaini, Sandra ^b   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^f HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^g JDMT Medical Services AG   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental identification; Forensic identification; Forensic radiology; Post mortem CT; Post mortem dental CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER VICTIM; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUMBER OF CONCORDANT FEATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84960865233     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: 22124799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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