The Fine Art of Fraud - The Detection of Forgery with Scientific Tools
Idaho Accelerator Center
Idaho State University
This presentation describes the use of different
scientific methods including physics, chemistry (radiochemistry in particular),
radiography and computer-aided tomography (CT), metallography and others for
the detection of various kinds of forgery of e.g. antiques, paintings,
documents, money and more. Radioanalytical tools like accelerator-based photon
activation analysis and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry are moved into focus.
Nearly all methods involved work strictly non-destructively; some, e.g.
microhardness measurement, leave negligible injury in the material of the
respective objects.