Legal Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 1-14 , January 2005

Estimation of time since death by heat-flow Finite-Element model. Part I: method, model, calibration and validation

  • Gita Mall

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Mainz, Am pulverturm 3, 55131 Mainz, Germany. Tel.: +49-6131-393-7081.
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  • Wolfgang Eisenmenger

Received 26 December 2003 ,Revised 24 May 2004 ,Accepted 20 June 2004.

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PII: S1344-6223(04)00049-5

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.06.006

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