Analysis of pathological and non-pathological human skeletal remains by FT-IR spectroscopy

作者：Nagy Gergely; Lorand Tamas; Patonai Zoltan; Montsko Gergely; Bajnoczky Istvan; Marcsik Antonia; Mark Laszlo^*

来源：Forensic Science International, 2008, 175(1): 55-60.

DOI：10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.05.008

• crystallinity index
• dating
• infrared spectroscopy
• FT-IR
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Treponema pallidum

In this study, we report the chemical analyses of various non-pathological, tuberculosis and syphilis infected bone samples from different burial environments by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), in the framework of a general study of diagenesis. Dating human skeletal remains is one of the most important and yet unreliable aspects of forensic anthropology. In this paper, a new method has been suggested, using the crystallinity index and carbonate-phosphate index as a means of distinction between recent and archaeological, anthropological bone samples. Pathological bone samples were analyzed with the same method to see if changes in crystallinity interfere with the process of dating.

• 出版日期2008-2-25
• 单位河北医科大学