| 2026, Cilt 42, e0471 |
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| Gender Determination of Foramen Magnum and Occipital Condyles in Dogs Using Computed Tomography |
| Sedat Aydogdu1, Yusuf Altundag2, Muhammed Taha Temir3 |
| 1Selcuk University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Konya, Türkiye 2Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Surgery, Tekirdağ, Türkiye 3Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Radiology, Istanbul, Türkiye |
| Keywords: Computed tomography, dog, foramen magnum, morphometric measurement, occipital condyles |
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The foramen magnum (FM) and occipital condyles (OC) are important anatomical
features in anthropology and zooarchaeology for the identification of breeds,
species, and gender. The present study aimed to determine the gender of dogs using
morphometric measurements of the FM and OC. A total of 27 healthy dogs without
any pathology, 11 females and 16 males, were used in this study. Morphometric
measurements were performed on tomography images of the dogs' heads. Before
morphometric measurements were made on the images obtained in DICOM (Digital
Imaging and Communications in Medicine) format, interactive MPR (Multi-Planar
Reformat) and positioning were performed in ITK-SNAP software. After rotation
and positioning, eight different morphometric measurements were performed
on the FM and OC using ITK-SNAP software. According to the morphometric
measurement results, no statistical difference was determined in the length of the
right OC(LROC), length of the left OC (LLOC), width of the right OC (WROC),
width of the left OC (WLOC), intercondylar width (ICW), intercondylar distance
(ICD), and internal width of the FM (IWFM) in female and male dogs. A difference
was observed in the internal length of the FM (ILFM) parameter, which was found
to be statistically significantly higher in males. It is thought that the morphometric
measurement results obtained from the FM and OC of dogs will contribute to
zooarchaeological and anthropological studies examining the differences between
gender and head structure in dogs.
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