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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Filip Schutyser, Sint-Niklaas, BE;
Inventor:
Filip Schutyser, Sint-Niklaas, BE;
Assignee:
Medicim N.V., , BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is related to a method for performing a cephalometric or anthropometric analysis comprising the steps of: acquiring a 3D scan of a person's head using a 3D medical image modality, generating a 3D surface model using data from the 3D scan, generating from the 3D scan at least one 2D cephalogram geometrically linked to the 3D surface model, indicating anatomical landmarks on the at least one 2D cephalogram and/or on the 3D surface model, performing the analysis using the anatomical landmarks.