Micro-computed tomography of false starts produced on bone by different hand-saws

Legal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-5

  Pelletti, Guido ^a   Viel, Guido ^a   Fais, Paolo ^b   Viero, Alessia ^a   Visentin, Sindi ^a   Miotto, Diego ^a   Montisci, Massimo ^a   Cecchetto, Giovanni ^a   Giraudo, Chiara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

False starts; Forensic anthropology; Micro computed tomography; Micro CT; Saw marks

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; OSTEOTOMY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STEREOMICROSCOPY; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; STANDARDS; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

BONE AND BONES; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85011866999     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2017.01.009     Document Type: Article

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