Bodymetry & Life Science
The methods of continuously optimised industrial 3D metrology and digitisation increasingly diversifies into non-industrial application fields, such as dental medicine, cosmetics or even animated effects in the film industry. With special solutions for precise non-contact digitising of teeth, skin, faces or complete bodies, Breuckmann is your competent, experienced partner.
PrintAnthropometry & Anatomy
The so-called virtual anthropometry is a new research area resulting from a cooperation of experts of very diverse science disciplines: this form of complementing knowledge exchange among anthropologists, mathematicians, medical scientists, physicists and computer scientists contributes to many areas, such as for example the examination and reconstruction of fossil findings and mummies, the improvement of dental implants as well as the early diagnosis of diseases or provides methods and results for a better understanding of the evolution of human beings and great apes.
In the field of anthropometry, for example, facial reconstructions based on 3D data support the forensic identification of persons or give us a virtual impression of how extinct populations could have looked like. Because of its high value in the three-dimensional representation of human features, this method is also increasingly used in facial surgery, making it possible to illustrate a patient’s postoperative appearance prior to the procedure.
At present, a Hungarian study* is aimed at gathering an extensive collection of morphometric data by means of optical 3D data capturing. The vast and diverse pool of information generated from more than 1.000 patients is used to develop a special software for precise craniofacial reconstructions. A biometric data analysis helps to establish the correlations between bone structure and soft tissue with the resulting information serving as basis for the mathematical 3D modeling of the facial soft tissue, especially that of the nose. In preliminary study examinations, the research group realised that the three-dimensional face capturing works considerably faster and much more precisely compared using the photogrammetry approach, and therefore has proven to be the most suitable method for this study.
*(“Morphometric research for developing the 3D facial reconstruction method from the purpose of historic- and forensic anthropology, and medicine”, Ágnes Kustár PhD, Hungarian Natural History Museum Department of Anthropology)
In the context of anthropometry and anatomy, three-dimensional metrology and digitisation data are used in fields such as
- measurement of breast, thigh, foot and bust,
- femur,
- vertebra,
- finger / fingerprints
- anatomic studies / body dimensions,
- individualised helmets and
- speedski suits
- ... and many more.
Exhibition „Mankind in 3D – In the Focus of Digital Technology“
In cooperation with the research network EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network), the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt (Germany) will present pictures and information about state-of-the-art 3D research in the fields of history and evolution of human mankind. Innovative examination methods allowing the reconstruction of fossil hominids are developed on the basis of modern techniques such as the 3D surface scanning and computer tomography.
The exhibition took place from March 21, 2010 to May 16, 2010 in the New Castle of Meersburg. Further information is available on Report in the German television programme "nano" (3Sat).
Pictures
- Details of a face scan
- 3D data of soles of the feet
- Digitised thumbs...
- ... and hands.