Towards digital reconstruction of fossil crania and brain morphology

Anthropological Science

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-68

  Ogihara, Naomichi ^a   Amano, Hideki ^a   Kikuchi, Takeo ^a   Morita, Yusuke ^a   Hasegawa, Kunihiro ^b   Kochiyama, Takanori ^c   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assembly; Computational neuroanatomy; Deformation; Interpolation; Virtual anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930069073     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.141109     Document Type: Review

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