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Skull: Normal X-ray and CT Anatomy

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Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT

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The skull is the skeletal framework of the head of vertebrates formed by the cranium. It encompasses the frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, zygomatic, lacrimal, nasal, ethmoid, and sphenoid bone as well as the maxilla. This chapter illustrates the normal CT anatomy of the skull.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India

    Ujwal Bhure

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland

    Ujwal Bhure

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  1. Klaus Strobel
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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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    Klaus Strobel

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Strobel, K., Bhure, U. (2023). Skull: Normal X-ray and CT Anatomy. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_24

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