Measuring the thickness of facial soft tissues using nuclear magnetic resonance tomography for the purpose of identification |
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Authors: | R Helmer F Koschorek B Terwey T Frauen |
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Abstract: | Nuclear spin tomography since its beginnings in the seventies has steadily gained in importance as a method of examination in medical diagnostics as it produces a picture. In the field of forensic medicine the NMR technique as used for anatomic-anthropologic issues attempting to identify skulls this is a valuable supplement to an extension of the existing methods of investigation. The results of a measurement of the thickness of soft facial tissue in a live test person is shown as compared to measures obtained by sonography. |
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