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Matching bullets to bone impact signatures
O C Smith1, S A Symes, H E Berryman
1University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Journal of Forensic Sciences
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
When bone is penetrated or perforated by a bullet, the bullet's impacting surface is often uniquely modeled by the fractured bone. Reconstructing bone with simple super-imposition of the bullet's contour lines allows matching of a particular bullet to its specific bone defect.