Forensika

Articles

Overviews of the methods behind the Forensika apps: how they work, where their limits are and which literature they rest on.

Estimating time of death from rectal temperature: the Henssge nomogram in practice

How the Henssge nomogram works, how to choose the corrective factor, how wide the 95 % interval is and when the result does not hold. An overview for forensic pathologists and students.

Bruise colour from a photograph: what can be measured and what cannot

How to document the colour of a bruise, abrasion or scar objectively: CIELAB, ΔE (CIEDE2000), grey-card calibration, and why the age of a bruise cannot be determined reliably from its colour.

3D documentation of an examination with an iPhone: scale, uncertainty and integrity

How photographs and LiDAR become a measurable 3D model of a body or a scene, how the scale is verified, what an uncertainty of ± U (k = 2) means, documentation classes A to D and SHA-256 integrity.