Electronic removal of encrustations inside the steinheim cranium reveals paranasal sinus features and deformations, and provides a revised endocranial volume estimate

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-142

  Prossinger, Hermann ^a   Seidler, Horst ^a   Wicke, Lothar ^b   Weaver, Dave ^c   Recheis, Wolfgang ^d   Stringer, Chris ^f   Müller, Gerd B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT; Encrustation; Endocast; Endocranial volume; Fossil; Homo heidelbergensis; Imaging; Steinheim

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; ELECTRONICS; FOSSIL; FRONTAL SINUS; HOMINID; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARANASAL SINUS; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL; SKULL MALFORMATION; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 0141919828     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.10022     Document Type: Review

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