ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

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

Abstract: 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].

Principal Investigator: Dr Maria Paula Marques
Experimenter: Professor Luis Alberto Batista de Carvalho
Experimenter: Mr Calil Makhoul
Experimenter: Dr David Gonçalves
Experimenter: Mrs Ana Vassalo
Experimenter: Professor Stewart Parker

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1710008

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1710008

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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