Vieth, Volker
Schulz, Ronald
Heindel, Walter
Pfeiffer, Heidi
Buerke, Boris
Schmeling, Andreas
Ottow, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0512-741X
Article History
Received: 19 July 2017
Revised: 20 December 2017
Accepted: 21 December 2017
First Online: 13 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Andreas Schmeling.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in:Ottow C, Krämer JA, Olze A, et al. Magnetresonanztomographiestudie zur Altersschätzung von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen [Magnetic resonance tomography studies on age estimation of unaccompanied minor refugees]. Rechtsmedizin. 2014; 25(1):12-20.Ottow C, Schulz R, Pfeiffer H, Heindel W, Schmeling A, Vieth V (2017) Forensic age estimation by magnetic resonance imaging of the knee: the definite relevance in bony fusion of the distal femoral- and the proximal tibial epiphyses using closest-to-bone T1 TSE sequence. Eur Radiol 27:5041-5048Guo Y, Olze A, Ottow C, et al. Dental age estimation in living individuals using 3.0 T MRI of lower third molars. Int J Legal Med. 2015;129(6):1265-70.Timme M, Ottow C, Schulz R, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging of the distal radial epiphysis: a new criterion of maturity for determining whether the age of 18 has been completed? Int J Legal Med. 2017;131(2):579-84.
: • prospective• cross-sectional study• performed at one institution