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 Raman spectroscopy for analyzing body fluid traces, stain aging, differentiation between races, genders and species
Award Information
Awardee
              The Research Foundation of SUNY, University at Albany
Award #
              2011-DN-BX-K551
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Albany, NY
Awardee County
              Albany
Congressional District
              20
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2011
Total funding (to date)
              $615,575
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2011, $615,575)
This research project is in continuation of an ongoing award ultimately targeting the development of an easy-to-use, portable instrument for the rapid, non-destructive, and confirmatory identification of body fluids in biological stains recovered at a crime scene. The main goals of the proposed study are to build a library of Raman signatures, and develop/validate the methodology and software for the automatic analysis of Raman spectroscopic data for (i) determining the age of a biological stain under various environmental conditions, (ii) differentiating human and animal blood, and (iii) determining race and gender based on human body fluid traces including blood, menstrual blood, vaginal fluid, semen, saliva and sweat.  

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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Raman spectroscopy coupled with advanced statistics for differentiating menstrual and peripheral blood
                  Raman Spectroscopy For Analyzing Body Fluid Traces, Stain Aging, Differentiation Between Races, Genders And Species
                  Race Differentiation by Raman Spectroscopy of a Bloodstain for Forensic Purposes
                  Raman "Spectroscopic Clock" for Bloodstain Age Determination: The First Week After Deposition
                  Sex Determination Based on Raman Spectroscopy of Saliva Traces for Forensic Purposes
                  In Situ Identification of Semen Stains on Common Substrates via Raman Spectroscopy
                  Identification of species blood by attenuated total reflection (ATR) Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy
                  Vibrational Spectroscopy: Recent Developments to Revolutionize Forensic Science
                  Vibrational Spectroscopy: Recent Developments to Revolutionize Forensic Science
                  Raman Spectroscopy of Blood for Species Identification
                  A modified Raman multidimensional spectroscopic signature of blood to account for the effect of laser power
                  Discrimination of human and animal blood traces via Raman spectroscopy
                  Forensic Identification of Blood in the Presence of Contaminations Using Raman Microspectroscopy Coupled with Advanced Statistics: Effect of Sand, Dust, and Soil
                  Circumventing substrate interference in the Raman spectroscopic identification of blood stains
                  Raman Spectroscopy Coupled with Advanced Chemometrics for Forensic Analysis of Semen and Blood Mixtures
                  Advanced statistical analysis of Raman spectroscopic data for the identification of body fluid traces: semen and blood mixtures
                  Multidimensional Raman spectroscopic signature of sweat and its potential application to forensic body fluid identification
                  Raman spectroscopic signature of vaginal fluid and its potential application to forensic body fluid identification
                  Raman Spectroscopy and Advanced Statistics for Biochemical Research and Analytical Purposes

  
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