Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. 3-D Acquisition, Recontruction & Modelling Techniques -- An Example of 3D Imaging for Clinical Support "Bouclier Program -- Fourier Transform Profilometry for Measurement of the Three Dimensional Shape of the Human Back in Scoliosis -- Towards a Fully Automated Photogrammetric Device to Discern Variations in Back Surface Shape -- A Surface Modelling System for the Study of Scoliosis -- Improvement of Rib Cage 3-D Reconstruction by Taking into Account Patient Displacement during Stereoradiography -- Algorithm for Estimation, Classification and Graphical Representation of Clinical Parameters in the Measurement of Scoliosis and Spinal Deformities by Means of Non-Ionising Device -- New Procedure for Computation and Automatic Classification of Spinal Clinical Parameters by Image Processing of Digitised Radiography -- Three-Dimensional Dynamic Reconstruction of Back Shape -- Back Surface Analysis by Laser Beam Scanning and Stereo-Photogrammetry -- Signal Processing Aspects of 3-Dimensional Shape Measurement. -- Digital Radiography Segmentation of Scoliotic Vertebral Pedicles Using Morphological Segmentation -- 3-D Reconstruction of Vertebral Endplate Wedging -- Computer Animation of the Scoliotic Deformation Process -- Accurate and Fast Non-Contact 3-D Acquisition of the Whole Trunk -- Chapter 2. 3-D Biomechanical Analysis -- Measurement of Intervertebral Displacements During Surgical Correction of Scoliosis -- Three-Dimensional Analysis of Scoliosis Surgery Using Stereophotogrammetry -- Data Variability in the Analysis of Spinal Deformity: a Study Performed by means of the AUSCAN System -- Modelling of Facet Joints in a Global Finite Element Model of the Spine: Mechanical Aspects -- Description of Scoliotic Deformity by Modulated Sinusoidal Functions -- Coupling Mechanisms in the Scoliotic Spine