Use of Radiographic Atlases in a Mass Fatality

Abstract

In May and June of 1996, a forensic anthropology team from the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida identified 9 of 10 juveniles from the crash of ValuJet 592. The team relied primarily on a radiographic atlas developed and used by clinical practitioners to determine skeletal age. Postmortem radiographs of the juvenile victims were compared with radiographic standards to determine skeletal age. Skeletal age was then compared to a passenger list indicating the sex, weight, height, and chronological age of each individual. Tentative identifications based on the atlas method were organized into an exclusion matrix. Final identifications were based on this assessment in conjunction with other anthropological data such as appearance and fusion of ossification centers and estimation of stature.

Development of dental charts according to tooth development and eruption for Turkish children and young adults

“…This application is practical and useful because it is based on the comparison of panoramic images, which are often applied during routine practice, and dental charts. In addition, dental charts offer rapid and practical solutions to problems of dental age estimation for children and young adults, to aid in the identification of disaster victims, particularly by inexperienced investigators 11. The advantages of using this system to estimate the age of an individual are that it is simple and does not require any specialized training to recognize specific stages; further, it does not require the use of specialized equipment beyond the X-ray apparatus 17.…”

Prediction of stature using hand dimensions

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Estimation of stature from dimensions of hands and feet in a North Indian population

“…[23][24][25][26] The purpose of the present study is to analyze the anthropometric relationship between dimensions of hands and feet with stature and to devise regression formulae to estimate stature from these dimensions.…”