Use of facial asymmetry in better diagnosis and treatment of Plagiocephaly

幼儿出现一种医学病症（俗称斜头畸形）的趋势日益增加，这可能导致他们的头部畸形和面部扭曲。有可能通过让孩子戴上精心设计的头盔来帮助消除这种情况，这种头盔可以促进头骨朝着最小化畸形的方向生长。为了制造这样一个头盔，相关的医生需要有一个精确的孩子形状的模型。年代的头。现在这个模型是用石膏做的；这个过程可能会让孩子感到非常不安，或者需要使用全身麻醉，以及随之而来的所有相关风险。该项目旨在通过使用相机和灯光来克服这一问题，以便快速准确地测量孩子的身高。S的头和脸。这些数据不仅有助于头盔的制造，还有助于找到头部畸形和面部变形之间的联系。这将有助于证明近距离观察脸部是否可以作为诊断斜头畸形的方法。它还将为监测和评估头盔治疗的成功提供一种方法。

There is an increasing tendency for young children to develop a medical condition (known a Plagiocephaly), which can result in deformity of their heads and distortions of the faces. It is possible to help remove the condition by having the child wear a carefully designed helmet that encourages the skull to grow in a direction that will tend to minimize the deformity. In order to manufacture such a helmet, the doctors involved need to have an accurate model of the shape of the child?s head. At the moment this model is made by making a plaster cast of the head; which is a procedure that that can be quite upsetting for the child, or which necessitates the use of a general anesthetic, with all the associated risks which that entails. The proposed project aims to overcome this problem by using cameras and lights in order to quickly and accurately measure the child?s head and face. As well as enabling manufacture of the helmet, this data will help with finding a link between the deformity of the head and the distortions of the face. This will help to show whether looking closely at the face could be way to diagnose Plagiocephaly. It will also provide a method for monitoring and evaluating the success of the helmet treatment.