HEAT-INDUCED CHANGES IN HUMAN BONE PROBED BY NEUTRON VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

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Neutron vibrational spectroscopy is applied to the study of burned human skeletal remains, as an innovative way of tackling heat-induced changes in human bone, which will have a significant impact in forensic, bioanthropological and archaeological contexts. The results, coupled to Raman and FTIR data, will lead to an improved understanding of the changes undergone by bone upon burning events, allowing a reliable assessment of the subsequent changes and ultimately relating burned to pre-burned parameters. A quantitative relationship between spectroscopic parameters, macroscopic dimensional variations in burned bones and specific burning conditions (e.g. temperature and duration) is sought. This work follows two experiments on MAPS (RB1520001 and 1620027), which constitute the first studies of human burned bones by neutron techniques. Our first results were recently published [1].

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86390098
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86390098
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Creator Dr Luis Alberto Batista de Carvalho; Dr Maria Paula Marques; Mr Calil Makhoul; Dr David Gonçalves; Mrs Ana Vassalo; Professor Stewart Parker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-10T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-19T07:56:49Z