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3D RECONSTRUCTION OF PHALANGEAL AND METACARPAL BONES OF MALE JUDO PLAYERS AND SEDENTARY MEN BY MDCT IMAGES |
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Ibrahim Kalayci  |
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Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, University of Selcuk, Konya, Turkey |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2008) 7, 544 - 548 Search Google Scholar for Citing Articles |
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| This study has been performed to reveal hand bone peculiarities
of elite male judoists by comparing their phalangeal and metacarpal bones
with those of sedentary men on the basis of biometric ratio of the bones
by means of three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multidetector computed
tomography (MDCT) images. For this purpose, the axial images of the right
and left hands of 8 elite male judo players (mean age: 22.0 ± 2.9 years,
mean weight: 64.0 ± 4.9 kg) and 8 sedentary men (mean age: 26.0 ± 2.8 years,
mean weight: 69.0 ± 3.6 kg) were obtained from MDCT. After semi-automatic
segmentation and manual editing, the tracings of bone surfaces were stacked
and overlaid to be reconstructed as the 3D images by the 3D program. All
biometrical measurements of the reconstructed images of the bones were automatically
calculated by this program to analyze statistically. This study showed that
the differences between biometric ratios of judoist and sedentary men's
hand bones were significant contrary to null hypothesis which was established
as there is no difference between biometric hand bone ratios of these men
of both groups. Therefore null hypothesis was rejected. Author suggests
that intense clutching actions practised in judo sports can most probably
lead to some hand bone proliferations. 3D reconstructed results belonging
to the judo players and sedentary men help orthopaedists to diagnose pathological
formations related to hand bones of judoists and may be used for anatomical
education in medicine faculties, respectively. We hope that the results
from the biometric and reconstructive techniques carried out in this work
will contribute to the present knowledge on judoist and shed light on the
future studies on sports medicine related to skeletal structure of other
sportsmen.
Key words: CT imaging, three-dimensional reconstruction, judo players, sedentary men, morphometry. |
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