METHOD FOR RELIEF-BASED ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUAL'S BODY SHAPE ASYMMETRY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: individual's back relief is visualised by stereophotographying followed by the stage of digital modelling and colour relief mapping. The stereoimage relieves of frontal and dorsal body parts are used to construct a set of cross sections of the front and back body parts at the different levels to form the full cross section of the body. Positions of sternum, spinal column and its spinous processes are marked by drawing a body boundary line on the right and left parts through them. That is followed by calculating areas of the right- and left-sided components of the full section of the body, coordinates of their geometrical centres to assess a displacement of each of the mentioned parameters and the spines in relation to a vertical drawn from an apex of gluteal fold That is followed by assessing variations of the body shape or its segments, whereas the derived parameters are used to assess the progression of a pathology or to assess the correction effect.

EFFECT: accurate detection and assessment of the individual's body shape asymmetry in any segment.

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