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Forensic Medicine Lab
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The lab uncovers the true causes of death through analysis of drugs and poisons and postmortem CT imaging.
AboutAbout the lab
Contributing to local public health by clarifying the true causes of death
The lab studies forensic diagnostics, which establishes the cause of death, the time since death, and injuries and asphyxia.
The research centers on testing for drugs and poisons with mass spectrometers and on postmortem imaging diagnosis with CT scanners.
This equipment is also shared with other clinical departments at Hokkaido University Hospital and used in their clinical work and research.
Members come from diverse specialties, including pathology specialists, dentists, veterinarians, and people trained in chemistry.
Key terms
- Forensic diagnostics
- A field that uses medical methods to determine the cause of death, the time since death, injuries, personal identification, and more
- Mass spectrometer
- An instrument that turns a substance into molecules or ions and measures their mass to determine what it contains and in what amounts
- Postmortem imaging
- A method of scanning the body of a deceased person with CT or other modalities to investigate causes of death that cannot be determined from external examination alone
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies forensic diagnostics, which establishes the cause of death, the time since death, injuries, asphyxia, personal identification, and more. With toxicological analysis of drugs and poisons and postmortem imaging as its two pillars, it conducts research that takes advantage of advances in analytical instruments.
*Illustrative imageToxicological testing by mass spectrometry
Using instruments such as liquid chromatography–mass spectrometers, the lab tests for psychotropic drugs, stimulants, alcohols, toxic gases, and metals. It has developed methods for measuring substances involved in diagnosing hydrogen sulfide poisoning and has studied the relationship between the time since death and short-chain fatty acids.
*Illustrative imageDiagnosis using postmortem CT images
With a dedicated CT scanner and a workstation for image analysis, the lab investigates causes of death that cannot be determined from external examination alone. Its work includes developing an imaging method to assess brain hemorrhage in decomposed bodies and studying sudden death associated with sleep apnea syndrome.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKotaro Matoba
- LecturerShigeki Jin
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Veterinary CT Scanner (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Malcolm Houston / Public domain (cropped)
- Toxicological testing by mass spectrometry: “HPLC autosampler close up” Martin Schaier / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Diagnosis using postmortem CT images: “Head CT scan” Andrew Ciscel / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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