Citation

Naru AS, Dykes E. Sci. Justice 1996; 36(1): 47-50.

Affiliation

Whitehall Dental Group, Tyne & Wear.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Forensic Science Society, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1355-0306(96)72554-6

PMID

8612056

Abstract

Criminal cases occasionally involve the analysis of bite mark injuries. This paper presents a method of digital image enhancement of an injury and an overlay production method to improve the comparison between the dentition of a suspect and the image of the injury. A comparison method entirely within the digital image software is also illustrated. The use of digitally-produced overlays appears to provide a more objective method of comparison. The use of this method for shoe print, tyre mark and other blunt instrument injury analysis is noted.

Language: en