Use of facial asymmetry in better diagnosis and treatment of Plagiocephaly

有一个日益增长的趋势，为幼儿发展的医疗条件（称为斜头），这可能会导致畸形的头部和扭曲的脸。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，这种头盔可以鼓励头骨朝着一个倾向于尽量减少畸形的方向生长。为了制造这样的头盔，医生需要有一个准确的模型的形状的孩子？的头。目前，这个模型是通过制作头部的石膏模型来制作的;这是一个可能会让孩子感到非常不安的过程，或者需要使用全身麻醉剂，以及随之而来的所有相关风险。拟议中的项目旨在克服这个问题，通过使用相机和灯光，以快速，准确地测量儿童？的头和脸。除了能够制造头盔外，这些数据还将有助于找到头部畸形和面部扭曲之间的联系。这将有助于显示是否仔细观察面部可以诊断斜头症。它还将提供一种监测和评估头盔治疗成功的方法。

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.