Cephalometry without complex dedicated postprocessing in an oriented magnetic resonance imaging dataset: a pilot study.

Objectives: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables a 3D-volume-imaging without ionizing radiation. Therefore, it was the aim of this study to present a post-processing-free method for cephalometric analysis of a MRI-dataset and to examine whether there is a significant difference between cephalometric analysis of conventional 2D cephalograms and MRI scans.

Methods: One MRI scan each was performed on three cadaver heads using a 3T-MR-scanner.