The human mandible in lateral view: Elliptical Fourier descriptors of the outline and their morphological analysis

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-207

  Schmittbuhl, Matthieu ^a,c   Le Minor, Jean Marie ^a,c   Schaaf, André ^a,c   Mangin, Patrice ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropology, physical; Biometry; Elliptical Fourier analysis; Mandible; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036208380     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(02)80021-8     Document Type: Article

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