Computerized craniofacial reconstruction using CT-derived implicit surface representations

Forensic Science International

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Vandermeulen, Dirk ^a   Claes, Peter ^a   Loeckx, Dirk ^a   De Greef, Sven ^a   Willems, Guy ^a   Suetens, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Craniofacial reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; DATA BASE; FACIES; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDITY;

EID: 33646469275     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.02.036     Document Type: Article

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