Reconstruction of the Homunculus skull using a combined scanning and stereolithography process

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 267-275

  Zhang, Guangming ^a   Tsou, Yi Chien ^a   Rosenberger, Alfred L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; CAM; Image processing; Measurement; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

HOMUNCULUS SKULL; LASER SCANNERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP); STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0010569665     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540010346542     Document Type: Article

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