Zednikova Mala Pavla, Veleminska Jana
Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 120 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
Department of Anthropology, Biology and Physiodetection, Institute of Criminalistics Prague, Police of the Czech Republic, Bartolomějská 12, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic.
J Forensic Sci. 2018 Jan;63(1):221-226. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13513. Epub 2017 Jul 21.
This study measured the accuracy of traditional and validated newly proposed methods for globe positioning in lateral view. Eighty lateral head cephalograms of adult subjects from Central Europe were taken, and the actual and predicted dimensions were compared. The anteroposterior eyeball position was estimated as the most accurate method based on the proportion of the orbital height (SEE = 1.9 mm) and was followed by the "tangent to the iris method" showing SEE = 2.4 mm. The traditional "tangent to the cornea method" underestimated the eyeball projection by SEE = 5.8 mm. Concerning the superoinferior eyeball position, the results showed a deviation from a central to a more superior position by 0.3 mm, on average, and the traditional method of central positioning of the globe could not be rejected as inaccurate (SEE = 0.3 mm). Based on regression analyzes or proportionality of the orbital height, the SEE = 2.1 mm.
