Correlation and Autofluorescence Microscopy in Forensics Medicine: Time of Death Detection Using Polycrystalline Cerebrospinal Fluid Films (eBook)

Victor Bachinskyi was born in 1952. In 1976, he graduated from Chernivtsi State Medical Institute. He received Candidate of Medical Sciences in 1988. Title of Associate Professor of the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine in Bukovinian State Medical University was awarded in 1991. Doctor of Medical Sciences from 2009, the topic of his dissertation was: 'Laser spectroscopy of biological tissues to develop objective criteria forensic determination of death and old time hematoma formation.' He awarded the title of Professor of the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine in 2011.

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This book highlights the first systematic synthesis of various research approaches in forensic medical diagnosis of the morphological and polycrystalline structure of human biological tissues and biological fluids. One of the global challenges in such diagnosis is the assessment of actual time of death. The relevance and objectivity of such studies are given by the innovative use of complex multifunctional methods using lasers and Mueller-matrix polarimetry, which is presented in this book. As a result, within the framework of the statistical, correlation and fractal approaches, diagnostic relationships were established between the time parameters of the transformation of the topographic structure of polarization-inhomogeneous microscopic images of biological preparations and necrotic changes in the morphological structure of biological tissues of the deceased. On this foundation, new forensic medicine criteria have been developed for objective determination of time of death.