title: Three-dimensional imaging of the craniofacial complex.
abstract: Orthodontic treatment requires the rearrangement of craniofacial complex elements in three planes of space, but oddly the diagnosis is done with two-dimensional images. Here we report on a three-dimensional (3D) imaging system that employs the stereoimaging method of structured light to capture the facial image. The images can be subsequently integrated with 3D cephalometric tracings derived from lateral and PA films (www.clinorthodres.com/cor-c-070). The accuracy of the reconstruction obtained with this inexpensive system is about 400 µ.
authors.affiliation: 3641 Copperfield Drive #187, San Jose, CA 95136; Imaging and Computer Vision Center, Drexel University, 32nd and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Johns Hopkins University, Medical Imaging Laboratory, 407 Traylor Building, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205; S72 W16484 Janesville Road, Muskego, WI 53150; Department of Orthodontics, Temple University, 3223 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140.
authors.forename: Can X.
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nissanov
authors.forename: Cengizhan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Öztürk
authors.forename: Michiel J.
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Nuveen
authors.forename: Orhan C.
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Tuncay