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Biostereometrics is beginning to be 
recognised by the medical research 
community and the clinician as a very 
important and precise spatial measuring 
tool. For many years the authors had 
undertaken biostereometric research work 
in a department of surveying, an 
enviroment remote from the medical world. 
Although much useful work was done, the 
medical researchers found it 
5. CONCLUSIONS 
difficult to accept that topographical 
measurement was very closely allied to 
biological measurement. The relocation of 
the main biostereometric researchers at 
the University of Cape Town into the 
Faculty of Medicine has undoubtably made 
stereophotogrammetry medically 
"respectable" in South Africa, albeit 
under the guise of “biostereometrics". 
6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors gratefully acknowledge the 
generous financial support received from 
the S.A. Medical Research Council, 
the University of Cape Town Staff 
Research Committee and the Faculty of 
Medicine Ethics and Research Committee. 
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