Facial soft tissue thickness database for craniofacial reconstruction in the Turkish adult population.

320 Turkish adults (160 men, 160 women) who had undergone brain CT in the radiology clinic and showed no sign of maxillofacial pathology were analyzed in order to create a facial soft-tissue thickness database of the Turkish adult population. The soft-tissue thicknesses were measured at 31 landmarks, 10 midline and 21 bilateral anatomical landmarks. Average thickness values for each landmark as well as the standard deviation and range classified according to gender and age are reported.

Midline facial soft tissue thickness database of Turkish population: MRI study.

Facial reconstruction is the approximation of an antemortem face from human skeletal remains. Since the nineteenth century, several methods have been developed for reconstruction of the face; all of them require the measurement of average tissue thicknesses at various points on the face. To our knowledge, there are no publications on soft tissue thickness in the Turkish population.

Evaluation of jugular foramen nerves by using b-FFE, T2-weighted DRIVE, T2-weighted FSE and post-contrast T1-weighted MRI sequences.

Purpose: To assess the most effective magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence for the visualization of the 9th, 10th, and 11th cranial nerves (glossopharyngeal, vagus, and accessory nerves, respectively) in their intraforaminal/canalicular courses.

Materials And Methods: Balanced fast-field echo (b-FFE), 3D-T2W DRIVE, T2W 2D TSE and post-contrast T1W MRI sequences were all applied and we tried to get the best sequence for the exact assessment of the 9th, 10th, and 11th cranial nerves. Six hundred nerves of 100 patients without symptoms of neurovascular compression were examined using the above sequences.