New local scanners transform forensic pathology.

Installed and working at laboratories in Salt River near Groote Schuur Hospital and at Tygerberg Hospital by late August last year, the adapted Lodox machines are causing major excitement among the country’s forensic experts. Dubbed the ‘ForenScan’ by staff at the Salt River forensic pathology laboratory, the low-dose radiography equipment is accelerating criminal investigations, enabling fast release of bodies for religious burial, vastly improving worker safety, helping to identify bodies, and allowing the sharing of digital scans across computer networks.