Quantitative assessment of interproximal wear facet outlines for the association of isolated molars

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-316

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Fiorenza, Luca ^b   Katina, Stanislav ^a,c   Bruner, Emiliano ^d   Kullmer, Ottmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D digital models; dental remains; elliptic Fourier analysis; geometric morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH CROWN;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MANDIBLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLAR; TOOTH WEAR;

EID: 78651507430     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21413     Document Type: Article

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