title: A three-dimensional measurement of the human parietal curvature.
abstract: The three-dimensional measurement of the parietal curvature in Japanese was accomplished with the use of moiré contourography and the sexual dimorphism was observed in it. Principal component analysis was also carried out and 4 important features of the shape of this bone were abstracted. Those were the degree of the curvature as a whole, lateral swellings, bilateral difference and posterior swelling.
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D002508:Cephalometry / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012737:Sex Factors