Assessment of scoliotic deformity from back shape asymmetry using an improved mathematical model

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 376-383

  Drerup, B ^b   Hierholzer, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

3 D model of spinal midline; Axial vertebral rotation; Back shape analysis; Rasterstereography; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACK SHAPE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATED SINE CURVES; RASTERSTEREOGRAPHY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL MIDLINES; VERTEBRAL AXIAL ROTATION;

BONE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030272131     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0268-0033(96)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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