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Musculoskeletal applications of three-dimensional (3D) imaging were among the first to be developed and remain its most common clinical application, as this noninvasive method offers a unique tool to characterize the bone morphology and to understand the architecture and kinematics of normal and pathologic joints in vivo. Indeed, accurate evaluation of complex anatomy or complex spatial relationships between the lesions and adjacent anatomic structures plays a major role in clinical applications of 3D imaging, as it represents a dramatic improvement over the use of planar cross-sectional imaging alone. This imaging has been shown to have an impact on diagnosis and surgical management in a number of skeletal applications including trauma, malformations and tumors. Moreover, 3D images frequently integrate hundreds of sections in a form that is often easier to interpret than the sections themselves (Calhoun et al. 1999).
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Cotten, A., Iochum, S., Moyse, A.B. (2002). Musculoskeletal System. In: Caramella, D., Bartolozzi, C. (eds) 3D Image Processing. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59438-0_23
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