Wound ballistics

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This comprehensive interdisciplinary reference work covers the fundamentals of wound ballistics, including physics, arms, and ammunition. It explores innovative methods like Virtopsy, which combines CT, MRT, and surface scanning to simulate gunshot wounds, alongside materials that mimic the interaction of bullets with soft tissue, bone, and blood vessels. The text addresses wound ballistics for various weapons, including short-range and long-range firearms, bomb fragments, and non-lethal weapons used in police and military operations. It provides extensive specialist knowledge, including detailed ballistic tables for various ammunition types, both modern and historical, and includes hard-to-find data in metric and U.S. units. A trilingual glossary in German, English, and French enhances accessibility. The book also introduces the latest diagnostic and simulation methods, emphasizing the practical applications of wound ballistics in forensic medicine, emergency surgery, and international conventions. It highlights the relevance of these topics in global conflict zones, terrorism, and crime, underscoring the need for police officers, surgeons, forensic specialists, and criminalists to understand ballistics and assess the complexities of gunshot wounds.