Quantitative analysis of the cochlea using three-dimensional reconstruction based on microcomputed tomographic images

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1083-1088

  Shin, Kang Jae ^a   Lee, Ju Young ^a   Kim, Jeong Nam ^a   Yoo, Ja Young ^a   Shin, Chuog ^b   Song, Wu Chul ^a   Koh, Ki Seok ^a  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Diagnosis of cochlear malformation; Micro CT; The cochlea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CADAVER; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INNER EAR; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL BONE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879315198     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22714     Document Type: Article

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