TY - CONF
TI - THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN WOUND BALLISTICS RESEARCH
AU - Tsiatis, Nick
AU - Moraitis, Konstantinos
AU - Papadodima, Stavroula and
AU - Spiliopoulou, Chara
AU - Kelekis, Alexis
AU - Kelesis, Christos and
AU - Efstathopoulos, Efstathios
AU - Kordolaimi, Sofia
AU - Ploussi, Agapi
PY - 2015
SP - null
PB - IOP Publishing Ltd
T2 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIO-MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND RELATED
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES (BIOMEP 2015)
TODO - 10.1088/1742-6596/637/1/012029
TODO - wound ballistics; human body; density; CT; Hounsfield
TODO - In wound ballistics research there is a relationship between the data
that characterize a bullet and the injury resulted after shooting when
it perforates the human body. The bullet path in the human body
following skin perforation as well as the damaging effect cannot always
be predictable as they depend on various factors such as the bullet’s
characteristics (velocity, distance, type of firearm and so on) and the
tissue types that the bullet passes through. The purpose of this
presentation is to highlight the contribution of Computed Tomography
(CT) in wound ballistics research. Using CT technology and studying
virtual “slices” of specific areas on scanned human bodies, allows
the evaluation of density and thickness of the skin, the subcutaneous
tissue, the muscles, the vital organs and the bones. Density data taken
from Hounsfield units can be converted in g/ml by using the appropriate
software. By evaluating the results of this study, the anatomy of the
human body utilizing ballistic gel will be reproduced in order to
simulate the path that a bullet follows. The biophysical analysis in
wound ballistics provides another application of CT technology, which is
commonly used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in various medical
disciplines.
ER -