Detection of smuggled cocaine in cargo using MDCT

Grabherr, Silke; Ross, Steffen; Regenscheit, Priska; Werner, Bernhard; Oesterhelweg, Lars; Bolliger, Stephan; Thali, Michael J

doi:10.2214/AJR.07.3048

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English

Detection of smuggled cocaine in cargo using MDCT

ContributorsGrabherr, Silke; Ross, Steffen; Regenscheit, Priska; Werner, Bernhard; Oesterhelweg, Lars; Bolliger, Stephan; Thali, Michael J

Published inAmerican Journal of Roentgenology, vol. 190, no. 5, p. 1390-1395

Publication date2008

Abstract

Smuggling dissolved drugs, especially cocaine, in bottled liquids is an ongoing problem at borders. Common fluoroscopy of packages at the border cannot detect contaminated liquids. The objective of our study was to develop an MDCT screening method to detect cocaine-containing vessels that are hidden between uncontaminated ones in a shipment.

Keywords

Cocaine/analysis
Forensic Toxicology/methods
Product Packaging
Reproducibility of Results
Solutions
Street Drugs/analysis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Transportation
Wine/analysis

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires / Institut de médecine légale

Research groups

Groupe Silke Grabherr (969)

Citation (ISO format)

GRABHERR, Silke et al. Detection of smuggled cocaine in cargo using MDCT. In: American Journal of Roentgenology, 2008, vol. 190, n° 5, p. 1390–1395. doi: 10.2214/AJR.07.3048

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PID : unige:112040
DOI : 10.2214/AJR.07.3048
PMID : 18430860

Journal ISSN0361-803X

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