Application of computed tomography in paleoanthropological research

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 913-921

  Wu, Xiujie ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; CT; Hominin fossil; Paleoanthropology; Virtual anatomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BRAIN MORPHOLOGIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; HOMININ FOSSIL; HOMININS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN FOSSILS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; VIRTUAL ANATOMY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 69049120197     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.10.009     Document Type: Review

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