Digital Analysis of Bitemark Evidence Using Adope Photoshop [includes Diskette]

Johansen, Raymond J.; Bowers, C. Michael

ISBN 10: 0967786606 / ISBN 13: 9780967786605

Published by Forensic Imaging Services, California, 2000

About this Item

RARE EX-LIBRARY slim SPIRAL-BOUND oversize paperback, published by Forensic Imaging, 2000. 112pp, including a floppy diskette to rear. Creasing to covers, usual library marks. Some bumping to text block, stickers to covers. Fair copy of this rare forensic teaching tool.

Seller Inventory # PB-18138

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Analysis of Bitemark Evidence Using Adope Photoshop [includes Diskette]
• Publisher: Forensic Imaging Services, California
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967786606
• ISBN 13: 9780967786605
• Binding: softcover
• Condition: acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime

About this title

Synopsis

This book is the first practical step-by-step description of digital methods necessary to control and analyze physical forensic evidence. Digital imaging is becoming commonplace in our world today and Forensic Dentistry and its allied disciplines are no exception. Bite marks are now being photographed digitally, digitally scanned from photographs, sent via electronic mail, and copied onto floppy, zip, and compact disks. These same applications are used in firearms, ballistics, fingerprints, and toolmark investigation.

It is becoming essential for the Forensic Examiner to be able to work with these digital images when asked to investigate cases. Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) is a powerful software tool that allows for imaging, enhancing, and resizing of the original evidence photographs. Photoshop(r) is also ideal for fabrication of suspect dentition overlays and other forensic exemplars used in physical comparisons.

Topics include scanning of bite mark photographs, enhancement and resizing these images, photographic distortion control, scanning two and three dimensional evidence, fabrication of overlays, and physical comparison techniques within Photoshop(r).

Practice image files that are used throughout the book are included on a 3.5 inch, high-density 1.44MB floppy disk.

About the Author

Raymond J. Johansen is a practicing dentist in Santa Barbara, California. He is a forensic consultant to the Santa Barbara Coroner' Office.

C. Michael Bowers is a practicing dentist and attorney in Ventura, California. He is a Deputy Medical Examiner for the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Odontology, IAI Senior Crime Scene analyst and a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.