Background and Objectives: Craniometric landmarks are essential in many biomedical applications, such as morphometric analysis or forensic identification. The process of locating is usually a manual slow task, highly influenced by fatigue, skills the experience practitioner. Localization errors propagated magnified subsequent steps, which can result incorrect measurements assumptions. Thereby, ...

Skull morphology in achondroplasic (cn/cn) mice was compared with that of normal siblings in order to determine the effects of this chondrodystrophy on skull growth, particular attention being given to dimensions reflecting growth at the synchondroses of the cranial base, the nasal septal cartilage and the condylar cartilage of the mandible. The central section of the cranial base (basicranial ...

Methods Cross-sectional analysis of craniometric parameters from individuals submitted to magnetic resonance at an outpatient imaging center between 2011 and 2012. Results Of 181 analyzed cases, the Welcker basal angle averaged 128.96º (SD 6.51), median distance between apex of the odontoid and Chamberlain's line was 2.27 mm (IQR -1.23-4.47) and the median clivus-canal angle was 150.5º (IQR 1...

Objective. Recently, 3-dimensionalecomputed tomography (3D-CT) imaging has been used in the diagnosis and surgical treatment planning of patients with craniofacial deformities. The present authors have developed a 3D-CT imaging procedure for a 3-dimensional coordinate point evaluation system to assess and diagnose patients with facial asymmetry. Study design. The CT data of 16 subjects was sele...

The study examines the relationships between different craniometric distances and the nasion-gnathion (N-Gn) distance which represents the lower two thirds of the face in vertical dimension determination. The highest degree of correlation (r = 0.9217; p < 0.05) was observed between the N-Gn and zygion-zygion (Zy-Zy) distances. The N-Gn distance could be determined using the formula N-Gn = Zy-Zy...