Legal medicine

Several members of LABO are experts in Legal and Forensic Medicine. Next to daily field works, related researches are performed within the LABO premises.

The topics below are the main current legal medicine projects currently running at LABO. If you are interested by anyone of them, please contact and mention the research project you are interested in.

Degradation of DNA in soft and salt water
Identification value of non-metrical traits in belgian and italian populations
Age estimation at death in elderly Belgian population
Estimation of the individual morphology and weigth using one anatomical segment - typology approach
Individual morphology and gender estimation from long bone fragments (femur, tibia)
Individual age at death of the bone collection found in Koksijde/Coxijde (Dune Abbey)
Morphology estimation from BMI index determined from various morphometric measurements obtained from X-ray of adult hands