CT在法医人类学中的应用与展望

计算机X线断层摄影术具有分辨率高、成像清晰、可进行三维重建等优点,对骨骼和牙齿的成像效果较好。近十年来,国外有学者将其用于推断年龄和身高,判定种族和性别,在相关文献中介绍了有关的研究方法和数据,并对这些方法和数据在法医人类学个体识别中的应用价值进行了客观的评估。笔者对近几年发表的部分文献进行综述,希望能够为法医人类学科研和办案提供新的方法和思路。

Application and prospect of CT in forensic anthropology

Computed tomography has some advantages,expecially for imaging of bone and teeth,such as high resolution ratio,clear imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction,etc. Over the past decade,it was used to deduce age and stature,determine ethnicity and sex by a few foreign forensic anthropologists. They described the relevant research methods and data,and assessed its value for individual identification in forensic anthropology. In this article,the author sumed up a part of papers published in some forensic magazines,with the purpose of providing some new ideas of researches and practices in forensic anthropology.