Citation

Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP, Dirnhofer R. Forensic Sci. Int. 2002; 125(2-3): 195-200.

Affiliation

Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Berne, Buehlstrasse 20, CH- 3012, Switzerland. thali@irm.unibe.ch

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11909663

Abstract

In order to create and study blunt force wound morphology, a "skin-skull-brain model" had to be designed which would make the laboratory reproduction of a blunt force injury to the head possible. During the evaluation of the "skin-skull-brain model", it was possible to show that injuries inflicted to this model are fully comparable to the morphology of equivalent real blunt forces injuries to humans. Utilization of the "skin-skull-brain model" presents some significant advantages: the model is inexpensive, easy to construct, instantly available for use, and eliminates ethics conflicts. The main advantage of such a model is, in comparison with biological substances, the high reproducibility of experimentally inflicted traumas.

Language: en