Technical note: A landmark-based approach to the study of the ear ossicles using ultra-high-resolution X-ray computed tomography data

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 665-671

  Schmidt, Jodi L ^a   Cole III, Theodore M ^b   Silcox, Mary T ^c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Callicebus; error analysis; geometric morphometrics; landmarks; Loris

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CALLICEBUS; CALLICEBUS TORQUATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INCUS; LORIS TARDIGRADUS; LORISIDAE; MALLEUS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; SKELETON RADIOGRAPHY; STAPES; ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EAR OSSICLES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LORISIDAE; PITHECIIDAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960161181     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21543     Document Type: Article

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