Andrea, At 07:54 AM 10/5/2004, you Dr. Andrea Cardini wrote: >Dear morphometricians, >could you please let me know if there is any reference on 3D geometric >morphometrics of postcranial bones?
Tom Kepple (NIH) and I digitized landmarks from lower extremities of 52 skeletons of contemporary humans at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History as described in: Kepple, T.M., H.J. Sommer, K. Lohmann-Siegel, and S.J Stanhope. 1998. A Three-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Database for the Lower Extremities. J. Biomechanics 31(1):77-80. We used 12-parameter Procrustes methods to accumulate normative models of the foot, tibia/fibula, femur and pelvis for four general populations (white female N=13, white male N=13, black female N=13, black male N=13) spanning the respective 5th to 95th percentiles of stature. I can provide further details or data if you are interested. Best wishes, Joe Sommer *********************************************************** H.J. Sommer III, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University 337 Leonhard Building, University Park, PA 16802 (814)863-8997 FAX (814)865-9693 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.me.psu.edu/sommer/ == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
