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Unit of Forensic Imaging (UIF)

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Presentation

The Unit of Forensic Imaging is part of the Forensic Medicine and Imaging Section (SMIF)

Main tasks

  • The UIF performs at the request of the judicial authorities forensic imaging investigations, a technique that includes methods for acquiring and restoring images of the human body taking advantage of various techniques of imaging (e.g. CT-scan and MRI). Imaging investigations precede and complement the autopsy. Imaging techniques have the advantage of being non-destructive and the acquired data can be stored and reviewed later on.
     
  • Postmortem angio-CT is a minimally invasive imaging method that allows to investigate the details of the vascular system that can't be achieved with a conventional autopsy. This examination requires the administration of a contrast agent with an infusion pump. CT angiography enables the detection of a source of bleeding, a malformation of the network of blood vessels, arteriosclerosis lesions, occlusion of a vessel and the visualization of the vascular anatomy.
     
  • 3D documentation which allows reconstruction by virtual 3D modelling and 3D morphometric comparisons between the lesions and the suspected objects of causing the lesions.
     
  • For enquiries, please contact our secretary : Melissa Jotterand

 

Field of activity

The main fields of activity deal with postmortem investigation, clinical expertise and expertise on record. The UIF also provides teaching and training to under-graduate and post-graduate students and also in continuing education. A wide variety of professions may be interestedv: medical doctors, pathologists, scientists, paramedics, judges, lawyers, police,...). The UIF develops innovative research programmes in the field of forensic imaging.

 

Staff

  • The activities of the UIF at the Geneva and Lausanne sites are carried out under the responsibility of Prof. Dr. Tony Fracasso. The unit is composed of forensic doctors, radiologists, radiographers, secretaries and specialists in 3D surface scanning.

 

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  Staff
Head of the unit Tony Fracasso
Forensic pathologist

Coraline Egger (GE)

Pia Genet (LS)
Radiologist

Virginie Magnin
Medical trainee

Said Saadi (LS)

Aude Esposito-Fava (GE)
TRM Alejandro Dominguez (LS)
Christine Bruguier (LS) 
Ruben Soto (LS & GE)
Sami Schranz (GE)
Francesca Versili (GE)
Valerie Frossard (LS & GE)
Lucia Fernandes Mendes (LS)
Dalia Mokrani-Ouezdar (GE)
3D surface scanning specialist Géraldine Gobat
Ballistics expert Fabiano Riva
Secretary Melissa Jotterand (LS)  
Annick Crockett-Griessen (GE)
Agnès Chapuis (LS)
Consulting doctors external radiologists

The UIF also welcomes interns and visiting researchers for varying periods of time, including students (medical, radiographer), foreign doctors, radiographers who wish to specialise in forensic imaging.

 

Equipments

Lausanne site:

Geneva site: