Quantitative Radiological Diagnosis Of The Temporomandibular Joint

Steven L. Jordan; Leslie B. Heffez

doi:10.1117/12.953293

25 May 1989 Quantitative Radiological Diagnosis Of The Temporomandibular Joint

Steven L. Jordan, Leslie B. Heffez

Proceedings Volume 1092, Medical Imaging III: Image Processing; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953293
Event: Medical Imaging III, 1989, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Recent impressive technological advances in imaging techniques for the human temporomandibular (tm) joint, and in enabling geometric algorithms have outpaced diagnostic analyses. The authors present a basis for systematic quantitative diagnoses that exploit the imaging advancements. A reference line, coordinate system, and transformations are described that are appropriate for tomography of the tm joint. These yield radiographic measurements (disk displacement) and observations (beaking of radiopaque dye and disk shape) that refine diagnostic classifications of anterior displacement of the condylar disk. The relevance of these techniques has been clinically confirmed. Additional geometric invariants and procedures are proposed for future clinical verification.

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Steven L. Jordan and Leslie B. Heffez "Quantitative Radiological Diagnosis Of The Temporomandibular Joint", Proc. SPIE 1092, Medical Imaging III: Image Processing, (25 May 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953293

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