Anatomy of the temporal bone

To fulfil a veterinarian’s request, we depicted a dog’s temporal bone in two ways. On the one hand, we visualised the main vessels and nerves running along the right external acoustic meatus on our model. On the other hand, we performed density analysis on the left temporal bone. The latter depiction can also show the spatial density of the bone based on the CT images, so in some cases it is more informative (due to its volumetric nature) compared to a 3D model concentrating solely on the boundary surfaces.