title: [Morphological analysis of acetabulum bony curved surface].
abstract: By using the reverse engineering (RE) technology, the mesh surface model of acetabulum was reconstructed by triangulation. Based on this kind of model, the local morphological analysis (LMA) and global morphological analysis (GMA) could be processed. The fitting minimal quadric surface method was applied to calculate the curvature of any point on the acetabulum bony surface, the local morphological character of its surface could be acquired, and its global surface character could be determined by GMA. The results showed that the acetabulum bony surface is elliptical surface, and its three eigenvalues (lambda1, lambda2, lambda3) relations on the three axes (x, y, z) are as follows: lambda1 is short than lambda2 and lambda3, lambda2 is close to lambda3.
authors.affiliation: Biomechanics Lab, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: Dongyun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Kerong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D000077:Acetabulum / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic