Quatrehomme G, Bolla M, Muller M, Rocca J P, Grévin G, Bailet P, Ollier A
Laboratoire de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France.
J Forensic Sci. 1998 Mar;43(2):417-22.
Burned bones were studied using Scanning Electron Microscopy. The samples were cut from a maxillary-mandibular block taken during an autopsy. These fragments were heated in a furnace under controlled temperature conditions for 60 minutes. The temperatures ranged from 150 to 1150 degrees Celsius. The results are as following: (i) there are significant alterations of the bone, more and more obvious as the temperature increases, (ii) it appears to be difficult to establish a precise correlation between the temperature and the scanning electron microscopy patterns.
