Macro- and mesomorphology of frontal sinuses in humans: Noisiness models relating to their ontogeny

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 186, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 443-449

  Prossinger, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brownian Bridge; Fractal; Frontal sinus; Landmarks; Morphology; Ontogeny; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL SINUS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORBIT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244250737     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80080-3     Document Type: Article

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