Structured-light 3D scanner in use to assess the human body posture in physical therapy - a pilot study.

Aim: The main goal of this study was to asses the possibility of using mass production structured-light 3d scanner to asses human body posture.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted on a healthy 23 year old volunteer and a lay-figure. The experiment consisted of 28 3D scans, divided into three separate tests.

An improved kinematic model of the spine for three-dimensional motion analysis in the Vicon system.

The mechanism of creation and pathomechanics of lateral spinal deformation is still not fully explained. Modern medical imaging techniques give scientists possibility to understand some aspects, but vast majority of those techniques is based on static trials. A motion capture system belongs to techniques which enable visualization of a spine during dynamic trials; however, due to lack of appropriate computational model, it is unsuitable for scoliosis imaging.