Wound Ballistics Basics and Applications /

• Main Authors: Coupland, Robin M. (Author), Rothschild, Markus A. (Author), Thali, Michael J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kneubuehl, Beat P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Traumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.; Traumatic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.

The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics Fundamentals in Physics, arms and ammunition, ballistics Simulating gunshot wounds: Virtopsy  – a virtual autopsy method, combining CT, MRT and surface scanning and Materials that reproduce the interaction of soft tissue, bone and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Fundamentals
• General wound ballistics
• Wound ballistics for bullets and fragments.- Wound ballistics in forensic medicine
• Wound ballistics and surgery
• Wound ballistics and international conventions
• Appendix. Tables.-Technical dictionary
• Bibliography
• References for figures
• Subject index.