Alice and David Jurist Institute for Biomedical Research, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2013 Jul;296(7):1102-14. doi: 10.1002/ar.22711. Epub 2013 May 6.
The human tongue is one of the most important yet least understood structures of the body. One reason for the relative lack of research on the human tongue is its complex anatomy. This is a real barrier to investigators as there are few anatomical resources in the literature that show this complex anatomy clearly. As a result, the diagnosis and treatment of tongue disorders lags behind that for other structures of the head and neck. This report intended to fill this gap by displaying the tongue's anatomy in multiple ways. The primary material used in this study was serial axial images of the male and female human tongue from the Visible Human (VH) Project of the National Library of Medicine. In addition, thick serial coronal sections of three human tongues were rendered translucent. The VH axial images were computer reconstructed into serial coronal sections and each tongue muscle was outlined. These outlines were used to construct a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the tongue that allows each muscle to be seen in its in vivo anatomical position. The thick coronal sections supplement the 3D model by showing details of the complex interweaving of tongue muscles throughout the tongue. The graphics are perhaps the clearest guide to date to aid clinical or basic science investigators in identifying each tongue muscle in any part of the human tongue.
人类的舌头是身体中最重要但研究最少的结构之一。人们对舌头的研究相对较少的一个原因是其复杂的解剖结构。由于文献中几乎没有能够清晰显示这种复杂解剖结构的解剖资源，这给研究人员带来了真正的障碍。因此，舌头疾病的诊断和治疗落后于头部和颈部的其他结构。本报告旨在通过多种方式展示舌头的解剖结构来填补这一空白。本研究的主要材料是来自美国国家医学图书馆可视人计划的男性和女性舌头的系列轴位图像。此外，还对三个人类舌头的厚冠状切片进行了半透明渲染。可视人轴位图像被计算机重建为连续的冠状切片，并勾勒出每个舌肌。这些轮廓被用来构建一个三维（3D）计算机模型，该模型允许每个肌肉在其体内解剖位置被看到。厚冠状切片通过显示整个舌头中复杂交织的舌肌的细节来补充 3D 模型。这些图形可能是迄今为止最清晰的指南，有助于临床或基础科学研究人员在人体舌头的任何部位识别每个舌肌。
