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http://dx.doi.org/10.4041/kjod.2008.38.96.427

Comparison of landmark position between conventional cephalometric radiography and CT scans projected to midsagittal plane  

Park, Jae-Woo (Department of Orthodontics, Kooalldam Dental Hospital)
Kim, Nam-Kug (Department of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University)
Chang, Young-Il (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University)
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The korean journal of orthodontics / v.38, no.6, 2008 , pp. 427-436 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study is to compare landmark position between cephalometric radiography and midsagittal plane projected images from 3 dimensional (3D) CT. Methods: Cephalometric radiographs and CT scans were taken from 20 patients for treatment of mandibular prognathism. After selection of land-marks, CT images were projected to the midsagittal plane and magnified to 110% according to the magnifying power of radiographs. These 2 images were superimposed with frontal and occipital bone. Common coordinate system was established on the base of FH plane. The coordinate value of each landmark was compared by paired t test and mean and standard deviation of difference was calculated. Results: The difference was from $-0.14{\pm}0.65$ to $-2.12{\pm}2.89\;mm$ in X axis, from $0.34{\pm}0.78$ to $-2.36{\pm}2.55\;mm$ ($6.79{\pm}3.04\;mm$) in Y axis. There was no significant difference only 9 in X axis, and 7 in Y axis out of 20 landmarks. This might be caused by error from the difference of head positioning, by masking the subtle end structures, identification error from the superimposition and error from the different definition.
Keywords
Landmark position; Cephalometric radiography; Projected images from 3D CT;
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