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Bailey, Melanie J. (author), de Puit, M. (author), Romolo, Francesco Saverio (author)Surface analysis techniques have rapidly evolved in the last decade. Some of these are already routinely used in forensics, such as for the detection of gunshot residue or for glass analysis. Some surface analysis approaches are attractive for their portability to the crime scene. Others can be very helpful in forensic laboratories owing to...review 2022
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Szynkowska-Jóźwik, Małgorzata I. (author), Maćkiewicz, Elżbieta (author), Rogowski, Jacek (author), Gajek, Magdalena (author), Pawlaczyk, Aleksandra (author), de Puit, M. (author), Parczewski, Andrzej (author)Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was applied to detect traces of amphetamine on fingerprints. In the present study, three different lift tapes and latent powder fingerprints were tested. The obtained results show that it is possible to identify traces of a drug as well as its distribution over the tested fingerprint...journal article 2021
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de Ronde, Anouk (author), van Aken, Marja (author), de Poot, Christianne J. (author), de Puit, M. (author)A previous paper published in this journal proposed a model for evaluating the location of fingermarks on two-dimensional items (de Ronde, van Aken, de Puit and de Poot (2019)). In this paper, we apply the proposed model to a dataset consisting of letters to test whether the activity of writing a letter can be distinguished from the...journal article 2020
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van Helmond, W. (author), van Herwijnen, Annemijn W. (author), van Riemsdijk, Joëlle J.H. (author), van Bochove, Marc A. (author), de Poot, Christianne J. (author), de Puit, M. (author)Fingerprints are widely used in forensic science for individualization purposes. However, not every fingermark found at a crime scene is suitable for comparison, for instance due to distortion of ridge detail, or when the reference fingerprint is not in the database. To still retrieve information from these fingermarks, several studies have...journal article 2019