Forensic Optics: Transforming a Hair into a Travel Log
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 8 Story 6 - 18/3/2010

Strains of hair

A laser removes the outer parts and creates an aerosol of the inner, clean constituents of the hair. Isotope analysis of the constituting atoms then reveals if a subject has traveled recently or not.
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Strains of hair. A laser removes the outer parts and creates an aerosol of the inner, clean constituents of the hair. Isotope analysis of the constituting atoms then reveals if a subject has traveled recently or not.