Science & Justice
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 197-204 , September 2009

A preliminary investigation into the use of FTIR microscopy as a probe for the identification of bullet entrance holes and the distance of firing

  • S.P. Sharma

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, MHA, Govt. of India, 30 Gorachand Road, Kolkata-700014, West Bengal, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 33 2284 1638; fax: +91 033 2284 9442.
    • ,
  • S.C. Lahiri

      Affiliations

    • Central Forensic Science Laboratory, MHA, Govt. of India, Kolkata-700014, India

Received 9 May 2008 ,Revised 25 July 2008 ,Accepted 31 July 2008.

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