Three-dimensional digital imaging of the partial Australopithecus africanus endocranium MLD 37/38

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-278

  Neubauer, Simon ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^a   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Weber, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL COMPUTER; HOMINID; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKELETON; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSILS; HAPLORHINI; HISTORY, ANCIENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 5444242216     PISSN: 08465371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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