Combining geometric morphometrics and functional simulation: An emerging toolkit for virtual functional analyses

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-15

  O'Higgins, Paul ^a   Cobb, Samuel N ^b   Fitton, Laura C ^a   Gröning, Flora ^a   Phillips, Roger ^c   Liu, Jia ^c   Fagan, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Finite element analysis; Geometric morphometrics; Multibody dynamics analysis

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALOPITHECUS BOISEI; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL SIMULATION; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; GEOMETRY; HOMINID; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIBODY DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SKULL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; BODY PATTERNING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

EID: 78650130065     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01301.x     Document Type: Review

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