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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Using Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess the Anatomy of the Eustachian Tube in Children with and without Otitis Media.

Ellen E Fricano, Allison P Gremba, Miriam S Teixeira, J Douglas Swarts, Cuneyt M Alper

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ellen E FricanoCollege of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA.
Allison P GrembaDoctor of Physical Therapy Program, School of Natural and Health Sciences, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA 15601, USA.
Miriam S TeixeiraDepartment of Graduate Medical Education, Arnot Ogden Medical Center, Elmira, NY 14905, USA.
J Douglas SwartsDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Cuneyt M AlperDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0551-8285
University of Pittsburgh · USArnot Ogden Medical Center · USSeton Hill University · USWestern University of Health Sciences · US

Funding

Testing/ImagingP50DC007667 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ALPER, CUNEYT METIN · 2006 to 2017
$12.6M
NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC007667
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Otitis media (OM) is among the most common of childhood illnesses. It has long been hypothesized that children under age two are predisposed to OM due to differences in the anatomy of the Eustachian tube (ET), including the angle of the ET. OM in later childhood is less common but does occur, begging the question, are there shape differences in the ET that persist underlying later occurrences of OM? To answer this question, a novel method, which applied geometric and morphometric shape analysis to landmarks obtained from MRI data, was used. MRI scans were performed on 16 children (5 control, 3 cOME, and 8 rAOM) between 2011 and 2015. Sixteen landmarks representing the shape of the ET, cranial base, and palate were analyzed. The results of a Procrustes ANOVA indicate that the shape of the ET varies significantly (

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biomedical imagingcanonical variate analysiscraniofacial growthEustachiangeometric morphometricMRI scanspharyngotympanicprincipal component analysisProcrustes analysis

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PMID37892845
PMCPMC10604907
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