アブストラクト（29巻1号：The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College）

The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College

English

Title　： Measurement of Tongue Volume with Three-dimensional Ultrasonography and Its Reproducibility
Subtitle　： Selective Proceedings of 35th General Meeting of Kanagawa Odontological Society, 2000
Authors　： Masafumi Inagaki*1, Eiro Kubota*2, Hiroo Oda*3, Masanori Kanno*1, Kensuke Asa*1, Atsushi Watanabe*1, Isamu Krashima*1
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Organization　： *1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Kanagawa Dental College, *2Department of Oral Surgery, Kanagawa Dental College, *3Department of Orthodontics, Kanagawa Dental College
Journal　： The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College
Volume　： 29
Number　： 1
Page　： 42-44
Year/Month　： 2001 / 3
Article　： Report
Publisher　： Kanagawa Odontological Society
Abstract　： [Abstract] The purpose of the present study was to investigate the reproducibility of volume measurement with three-dimensional ultrasonography (3D-US) and to actually measure a tongue volume with 3D-US. Bracken-starch pastry and boiled egg volumes were first measured to determine the accuracy of this 3D-US measurement. Both direct and 3D-US measurements were triplicated. Mean direct and 3D-US values were measured, respectively, showing no significant differences between direct and 3D-US measurements. A tongue volume was also measured 3 times. Then tongue volume was measured again because to determine the extent of errors in volume measurement by tracing that the circumference of tongue on an image obtained by one-time scanning was traced 3 times. There were no significant intra-examiner errors on all data (p<0.01). From these results, it was confirmed that volume measurement with very high accuracy can be achieved by this 3D-US method, and a tongue volume can be simply measured using this method.
Practice　： Dentistry
Keywords　： Three-dimensional ultrasonography, Tongue volume, Mandibular prognathism, Glossectomy, Accuracy