@article{db34d07088f911df928f000ea68e967b,
title = "Dating the time of birth: A radiocarbon calibration curve for human eye-lens crystallines",
abstract = "Radiocarbon bomb-pulse dating has been used to measure the formation age of human eye-lens crystallines. Lens crystallines are special proteins in the eye-lens that consist of virtually inert tissue. The experimental data show that the radiocarbon ages to a large extent reflect the time of birth, in accordance with expectations. Moreover, it has been possible to develop an age model for the formation of the eye-lens crystallines. From this model a radiocarbon calibration curve for lens crystallines has been calculated. As a consequence, the time of birth of humans can be determined with an accuracy of a few years by radiocarbon dating.",
keywords = "Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, 14C, F{\o}dselstidspunkt, Retsmedicin, Biomedicin, 14C, Time of birth, Bomb-pulse, Calibration, Forensics, Biomedicine",
author = "Henrik Kjeldsen and Jan Heinemeier and Steffen Heegaard and Christina Jacobsen and Niels Lynnerup",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.158",
language = "English",
volume = "268",
pages = "1303--1306",
journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Reseach B",
issn = "0168-583X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "7-8",
}