Jackowski C, Aghayev E, Sonnenschein M, Dirnhofer R, Thali M J
Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Int J Legal Med. 2006 May;120(3):165-7. doi: 10.1007/s00414-005-0050-1. Epub 2005 Oct 20.
Dental radiographs play the major role in the identification of victims in mass casualties besides DNA. Under circumstances such as those caused by the recent tsunami in Asia, it is nearly impossible to document the entire dentition using conventional x-rays as it would be too time consuming. Multislice computed tomography can be used to scan the dentition of a deceased within minutes, and the postprocessing software allows visualization of the data adapted to every possible antemortem x-ray for identification. We introduce the maximum intensity projection of cranial computed tomography data for the purpose of dental identification exemplarily in a case of a burned corpse. As transportable CT scanners already exist, these could be used to support the disaster victim identification teams in the field.
除了DNA之外,牙科X光片在大规模伤亡事件的受害者身份识别中发挥着主要作用。在诸如近期亚洲海啸造成的情况下,使用传统X光片记录整个牙列几乎是不可能的,因为这太耗时了。多层计算机断层扫描可在几分钟内用于扫描死者的牙列,后处理软件允许将数据可视化,以适应每一张可能的生前X光片用于身份识别。我们以一具烧焦尸体为例,介绍了用于牙科识别目的的颅骨计算机断层扫描数据的最大强度投影。由于已经有了可移动的CT扫描仪,这些扫描仪可用于在现场支持灾难受害者身份识别团队。