Optimization of 3-dimensional imaging of the breast region with 3-dimensional laser scanners

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-236

  Kovacs, Laszlo ^a   Yassouridis, Alexander ^c   Zimmermann, Alexander ^a   Brockmann, Gernot ^a   Wöhnl, Antonia ^a   Blaschke, Matthias ^a   Eder, Maximilian ^a   Schwenzer Zimmerer, Katja ^d   Rosenberg, Robert ^b   Papadopulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Biemer, Edgar ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3 dimensional imaging; 3D laser scanner; Breast surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST SURGERY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL LASER SCANNER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRUNK; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MANIKINS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646092562     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000197774.80832.24     Document Type: Article

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