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Imaging Techniques in Bone Analysis

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Introduction

The main medical radiological imaging techniques used for forensic examination of skeletal material may be summarized as follows:

  • Radiography: The term radiography is generally used to describe a static or “still” two-dimensional image produced by means of a single exposure to X-rays (an energy form of ionizing radiation). Such images are now usually recorded and stored digitally but were previously recorded photographically on X-ray film.

  • Fluoroscopy: The term fluoroscopy is used to describe a two-dimensional image directly visualized in real-time motion produced by a continuous exposure to X-rays.

  • Tomography: Tomography employs a moving X-ray tube and image receptor to create an image of a plane or “slice” within an object. Originally developed in the 1930s to overcome the limitations of radiography as a two-dimensional imaging method, the application of digital detectors and computer science led to the development of:

  • Computed Axial Tomography: CAT or CT scanning...

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  1. Bioarchaology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University, Mount Carmel, CT, USA

    Gerald Conlogue

  2. Cranfield Forensic Institute, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, Wilts, UK

    Mark Viner

  3. Institute of Dentistry, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Mark Viner

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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine / Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Soren Blau

  2. The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Luis Fondebrider

  3. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

    Douglas H. Ubelaker

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Conlogue, G., Viner, M. (2018). Imaging Techniques in Bone Analysis. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_157-2

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