Use of magnetic resonance imaging to measure facial soft tissue depth

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-57

  Vander Pluym, J ^a   Shan, W W ^a   Taher, Z ^a   Beaulieu, C ^a   Plewes, C ^a   Peterson, A E ^a   Beattie, O B ^a   Bamforth, J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b 8 53 Medical Sciences Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Facial anthropometry; Facial tissue depth; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CEPHALOMETRY; FACE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846199212     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/04-191     Document Type: Article

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