Determination of facial symmetry in unilateral cleft lip and palate patients from three-dimensional data: Technical report and assessment of measurement errors

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-137

  Nkenke, Emeka ^a   Lehner, Bernhard ^b   Kramer, Manuel ^a   Haeusler, Gerd ^a   Benz, Stefanie ^a   Schuster, Maria ^a   Neukam, Friedrich W ^a   Vairaktaris, Eleftherios G ^c   Wurm, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D cephalometry; Measurement error; Optical 3D imaging; Plane of symmetry; Unilateral cleft lip and palate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FACE ASYMMETRY; GERMANY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FACE; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTICS;

EID: 33644996647     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/04-138.1     Document Type: Article

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