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Forensic Medicine Lab
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A forensic medicine lab that investigates causes of death, identity, and the effects of drugs and poisons.
AboutAbout the lab
Investigating causes of death, identity, and the effects of drugs and poisons.
The Forensic Medicine Division studies causes of death, identity, and effects on the body through forensic autopsies, analysis of drugs and poisons, DNA testing, and postmortem imaging.
The lab also conducts research on documenting, as evidence, injuries sustained by living people, such as in child abuse cases.
Please note that the lab does not accept forensic examination requests from members of the public.
Key terms
- Forensic autopsy
- An autopsy performed to investigate the cause of death, the involvement of disease, and the circumstances of injuries.
- Injury mechanism
- The process by which an injury or wound was caused, including the circumstances and forces involved.
- Drugs and poisons
- A collective term for drugs and poisons. They are analyzed in samples from the body to investigate their effects on the body.
ResearchResearch themes
The Forensic Medicine Division investigates causes of death, identity, and effects on the body using forensic autopsies, analysis of drugs and poisons, DNA testing, and postmortem imaging. The lab also conducts research on using injuries sustained by living people as evidence.
*Illustrative imageForensic pathology research
Through forensic autopsies, the lab investigates the cause of death, the involvement of disease, and how injuries occurred (injury mechanism).
*Illustrative imageForensic toxicology research
The lab analyzes drugs and poisons in samples from living and deceased people and investigates their effects on the body.
*Illustrative imagePersonal identification research
The lab conducts DNA testing in cases where identity is unknown, as well as for parentage testing.
*Illustrative imagePostmortem imaging research
Before a forensic autopsy, the lab examines images of the body.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorSohtaro Mimasaka
- LecturerKiyotaka Usui
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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: “HP 6890 Gas chromatogram-mass spectrometer used on CSI” NSEasternShoreChemist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Forensic pathology research: “Nuclear Forensics ( )” IAEA Imagebank / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Forensic toxicology research: “TOF mass spectrometer June2007” Mwillett4000 / Public domain (cropped)
- Personal identification research: “GelDoc DNA gel electrophoresis photograph stained with ethidium bromide 05” Sgroey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Postmortem imaging research: “Veterinary CT Scanner (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Malcolm Houston / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Autopsy Imaging Center): “Naval Medical Center Portsmouth uses its CT scan. ( )” Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Biomarker Discovery Lab (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)): “Blood test samples” Fumikas Sagisavas / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Maternal and Child Medical Science Lab (Environment and Genome Research Center)): “Logan Campbell Kindergarten, music lesson (1965)” Mr. Reithmaier / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Disaster Public Health Lab (International Research Institute of Disaster Science)): “Tsunami Japan 2011” Tamaki Seto / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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