Age Determination by Skeleton Clinical Trial
Official title:
Swedish Age Assessment Study -SAAS Study to Deepen the Knowledge of Magnetic Camera Examinations as a Method for Medical Age Assessment
It is important that asylum seekers should have as accurate age assessment as possible and
that children's fundamental rights are met by choosing methods based on best available
knowledge. The aim is to provide, on the basis of best available knowledge, suggestions for
methods of medical age assessment of whether a person is over or under 18 years of age.
The primary issue is to investigate whether five selected growth zones in knee joint, ankle
and wrist individually or in combination can better determine the 18-year limit compared with
previous research.
Swedish Age Assessment study is conducted with the aim of
- Deepening the knowledge of age-assessment methodology with magnetic camera examinations
among born and registered in Sweden aged 14.0 through 21.5 years
- With a magnetic camera, investigate whether five selected growth zones in the knee joint
and ankle joint (distal femur, proximal tibia, distal tibia and calcaneus) and distal
radius (wrist) individually or in combination can better determine the 18-year limit
compared with previous research
- To investigate how gender and growing environment can affect the end of growth zones
;