Under the direction of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) in Lausanne (Dr. Silke Grabherr), the TWGPAM (made up of nine European institutes of forensic medicine) is developing reliable, standardized methods and guidelines for conducting and assessing postmortem angiographic examinations www.postmortem-angio.ch.
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As examinations typically are performed under the legal and task restraints of investigative authorities such as courts, prosecutors, district attorneys or police, there are constraints as to cost, time, objectivity and task specification depending on local law.
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The name is a portmanteau of 'virtual' and 'autopsy' and is a trademark registered to Prof. Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.