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Award Information
Awardee
Award #
2008-DN-BX-K182
Funding Category
Competitive
Awardee County
Knox
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2008
Total funding (to date)
$338,493
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2008, $171,215)
This research aims to improve sex diagnosis of crania by constructing an atlas of 3-dimensional bone models obtained from CT scans. A bone atlas is comprised of a database of models used to represent individual bones. From an atlas, statistical variation of morphology within populations can be computed to improve sex discrimination. By improving sex discrimination, anthropologists will be more likely to correctly identify an individual by his/her remains. This will help to eliminate the backlog of unidentified human remains.
ca/ncf
Date Created: September 15, 2008
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