Forensic Imaging of Trauma

Prof. Silke Grabherr is the Director of the University Center of Legal Medicine (CURML), Lausanne-Geneva, which is a multi-site center, located at 16 different sites in the French speaking part of Switzerland. She is Full Professor at the Faculty of biology and medicine of the University of Lausanne and the Faculty of medicine of the University of Geneva. She is a forensic pathologist, specialized in forensic imaging.Prof. Sarah Heinze is the Director of the Diagnostic & Research Institute of Forensic Medicine, Graz, Austria. She is Full Professor at the Medical University of Graz. She is a forensic pathologist and radiologist. Her main fields of research and interest are forensic imaging and clinical forensic medicine.Prof. Tony Fracasso is a forensic pathologist, professor of legal medicine at the University of Geneva. His main fields of research and interest are forensic histopathology and the pathology of child abuse.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Methods of Forensic Imaging.- 3. Blunt trauma.- 4. Sharp Trauma.- 5. Gun-Shot Trauma.- 6. Traffic accidents.- 7. Asphyxia.- 8. Hypothermia.- 9. Heat-related injuries.- 10. Forensic radiological appearance of explosion injuries.