

The length of vertical line from the center of sphenoid ostium to the lowest level of the bottom of sphenoid sinus is 12 mm ± 3.7 mm. The length of mean vertical line from the center of sphenoid ostium to the roof of sphenoid sinus of Non Onodi cell type is 10.6 ± 1.5 mm, and of Onodi cell type is 3.3 ± 1.5 mm. We took the high-resolution axial CT images, from all the subjects, of the thickness by 0.625 mm, and reconstructed 1-mm-thick gapless sagittal CT images to measure the distance of all the sellar and pre-sellar types on the three-dimensional reconstructable sagittal plane under the bone window (4,000 at its width, and 400 at its level) in the CT images.


The sagittal reconstruction images were obtained from 178 CT images of 89 cases of normal adult participants (54 males and 35 females) with sphenoid sinus. The objective this study was to measure the changes of sphenoid sinusin the Chinese in AsiausingCT sagittal thin-slice reconstruction images, and to clarify the three-dimensional anatomical features of sphenoid sinus with its surrounding structures, relevant to the performing of the endoscopic sphenoidotomy. Wu, Hai-bo Zhu, Li Yuan, Hui-shu Hou, Chao Surgical measurement to sphenoid sinus for the Chinese in Asia based on CT using sagittal reconstruction images Surgical measurement to sphenoid sinus for the Chinese in Asia based on CT using sagittal.
