Fayixue Zazhi (Apr 2018)

Research Progress on Postmortem Interval Estimation by Vitreous Humor

  • YANG Ming-zhen, ZHANG Tian-ye, LI Hui-jun,et al

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1004-5619.2018.02.013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 34, no. 2
pp. 165 – 170

Abstract

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Postmortem interval (PMI) estimation is one of the most challenging problems in the field of forensic science. Vitreous humor is a hotspot which has been used for PMI estimation and postmortem chemical analysis in forensic pathology. In order to provide novel perspectives for the future research of PMI estimation using vitreous humor, the comparison between vitreous humor with other common body fluids, the effect of temperature on vitreous humor, vitreous humor detection method and data fitting method have been reviewed in this paper.

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