Quantifying symmetry in mandibular condyle motion: a real-time MRI approach
Justine Leclère, Karyna Isaieva, Guillaume Drouot, Romain Gillet, Jacques Felblinger, Pierre-André Vuissoz, Xavier Dubernard · 2025
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Description
Justine Leclère and six co-authors test ways to measure how evenly the two jaw joints move, using live MRI scans. Their study was published in twenty twenty-five. The jaw joints must work in sync for smooth chewing and speech, but judging their symmetry from live scans is little studied.
Eighteen volunteers were scanned with a fast real-time sequence in three planes while moving their jaws. A neural network outlined the jaw knobs so their paths could be traced in three dimensions. The team compared raw visual reads with computed measures, such as the gap in travel distance between sides. Well-matched measures are more likely to be trustworthy. The work seeks a reliable way to score jaw symmetry, which could aid care for jaw joint disorders.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Justine Leclère, Karyna Isaieva, Guillaume Drouot, Romain Gillet, Jacques Felblinger, Pierre-André Vuissoz, Xavier Dubernard |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |