Background

This is a work in progress by Zi-jung Zhang over 3 months of the year 2000. For further information please contact Dr Andrew Pullan or Dr Iain Anderson.

This model is based on Prof. John Carman's initial drawings, which are sequential sections of skull in 3 dirctions i.e. horizontal, sagital and coronal at an interval of 15 mm.

The bones included in this skull model are:

The margins of each bone on horizontal, sagital and coronal sections were marked first and then digitalized with the Faro arm in stream mode.

Skull Model - Geometry

CMGUI com file - skull.element.com

Skull

This is an element mesh of the external surface of skull. There are 3 main groups in this element mesh. 5.ex represents the 5 large pieces of bones and is subgroupped into frontal(including nasal bone), pareital (left, right), temporal, occipital, lacrimal+ethmoid and sphenoid. The z+maxil is a combination of zygomatic bone and the external surface of maxilla. The mandible has both external and internal surfaces meshed. Shown below is the skull and the 3 main groups it is composed of: 5.ex, z+maxil and mandible respectively.

Skull 5.ex z+maxil mandible

skull.element.com contains element groups of all the individual sections of bone that make up the above 3 groups.