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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 569
Registered: 10-2003
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I saw this a few minutes ago in the Aftenpost out of Norway and thought it would be of interest.
Researcher Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg from Namsos may have discovered a reliable method of calculating the age of a bruise, a potentially huge breakthrough in forensic science.
In her doctorate work at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) the physicist believes she has solved this problem using reflection spectrometry, measuring the light reflected back off the skin.
Lyngnes Randeberg has developed a computer program that measures the results and compares the development of the color of the bruise with a time curve for how the blood moves during bruise development.
"I am fascinated by how technology can reveal the truth. But it was Professor Olav A. Haugen at St. Olav's Hospital that put me on the track of finding methods of determining the age of bruises. This is something forensic scientists would like to have better answers for," Lyngnes Randeberg told newspaper Adresseavisen.
The analysis model needs information about the subject's gender and age in order to make accurate calculations about the time and color scale of bruise formation.
Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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