title: Estimation of the time since death: sudden increase of ambient temperature.
abstract: This work presents a procedure for the postmortem interval estimation in the presence of a rapid increase of ambient temperature occurred during the cooling phase. The resulting disturbance produced on the cooling curve is proved to obey a two-exponential law and is removed from the actually measured body temperature. This yields a theoretical/modified body temperature, which enables the estimation of the time since death by means of the standard Nomogram method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 00133 Rome, Italy. bisegna@uniroma2.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bisegna
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Henssge
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Althaus
authors.forename: Giusto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giusti
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors