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New method for measuring human decomposition could significantly impact medicolegal death investigations.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Contributor:
National Institute of Justice (U.S.), issuing body.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Autopsy--Technological innovations--United States.
Autopsy.
Human decomposition--Measurement.
Human decomposition.
Death--Time of.
Death.
Forensic pathology.
Medicolegal investigators--United States.
Medicolegal investigators.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 2021.
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from HTML caption (NIJ viewed April 21, 2025).
"April 8, 2021."
"National Institute of Justice-supported researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, designed and demonstrated a new method for estimating time since death (postmortem interval) that builds on the commonly used Megyesi et al. method for measuring human decomposition."
In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
Includes bibliographical references.
OCLC:
1517361764

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