title: The use of a digital imaging technique to aid bite mark analysis.
abstract: Criminal cases occasionally involve the analysis of bite mark injuries. This paper presents a method of digital image enhancement of an injury and an overlay production method to improve the comparison between the dentition of a suspect and the image of the injury. A comparison method entirely within the digital image software is also illustrated. The use of digitally-produced overlays appears to provide a more objective method of comparison. The use of this method for shoe print, tyre mark and other blunt instrument injury analysis is noted.
authors.affiliation: Whitehall Dental Group, Tyne & Wear.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Naru
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dykes
mesh_terms: D000085:Acetates; D000328:Adult; D001734:Bites, Human; D003817:Dentition; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000085:Acetates