1Assistant Professor Department of Forensic and State Medicine; Calcutta National Medical College
2MBBS Student, Calcutta National Medical College
3Assistant Professor; Department of Forensic and State Medicine; Kolkata Medical CollegeKolkata
4MBBS Student; Calcutta National Medical College
5MBBS Student, Calcutta National Medical College
6Professor & HOD. Dept of F. M. T., N.R.S. Medical College
*Corresponding Author, Soumeek Chowdhuri, Email.: smk.kgp@gmail.com
Online Published on 03 December, 2022.
Identification of skeletal remains has been challenging for forensic anthropologists, especially during disasters. 92 subjects, comprising 59 males and 33 females in the age bracket of 10 and 88, were scanned using a CT scan in the Indian Bengali population. Wilk's lambda for the model is 0.621 which signifies a good discriminating power of the model. The discriminant function equation (table 4) is, Df= 0.350 x EPWu - 0.039 x EPWI + 0.045 x SPL + 0.147 x SPH -11,357.0verall 75% of the sample was correctly classified into their group by this model. This study showed a significant difference in measurements of the last thoracic vertebrae for sex discrimination, so this can suggest that the last thoracic vertebra is a useful tool for sex identification, especially in cases of mass disaster where other bones may have been destroyed as an adjunct to other sex identifying tools in crime or death scene for Indian (Bengali) population
Forensic, Thoracic vertebrae, CT scan, Sex Determination
