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Plastination and computerized 3D reconstruction of the temporal bone
Author(s) -
Qiu MingGuo,
Zhang ShaoXiang,
Liu ZhengJin,
Tan LiWen,
Wang YuSu,
Deng JunHui,
Tang ZeSheng
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/ca.10076
Subject(s) - medicine , temporal bone , anatomy
The purpose of this study was to generate a computerized 3D reconstruction of the temporal bone and intratemporal structures. A plastination technique was used to obtain equidistant serial thin sections of 1.2 mm thickness and, on an SGI workstation, a Contour‐Marching Cubes algorithm was selected to reconstruct the temporal bone and intratemporal structures in three dimensions. All reconstructed structures can be represented individually or jointly and rotated in any plane. Any diameter and angle of a structure can be conveniently measured. The capability of reconstructing individual and combined images of intratemporal structures, viewing them from all surgical angles, and accurately measuring their spatial relationships gives skull base and otologic surgeons important guidance. The reconstructed model can also be used for resident education, rehearsal of an unfamiliar surgery, and for developing a new surgical approach. Clin. Anat. 16:300–303, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.