Steaming out some of luminol's wrinkles
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
A potential rival to the storied forensics tool luminol has emerged. Researchers show that using a hand steamer in combination with thermal imaging, a visualization technique they term "steam thermography," can make even 1/1000-diluted blood spots stand out from the background. And it works in some places luminol can't.