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. 2005 Aug 9;6(3):191–206. doi: 10.1007/s10162-005-0003-x

Table 2.

Angles (mean ± SD, in degrees) between Reid's planes XREID, YREID, and ZREID and semicircular canal planes

  XREID YREID ZREID LA LH LP RA RH RP
XREID 0 90 90 125.9 ±5.2 108.7 ±7.5 133.6 ±5.3 125.9 ±5.2 108.7 ±7.5 133.6 ±5.3
YREID 90 0 90 38.4 ±5.1 92.2 ±5.7 131.5 ±5.1 141.6 ±5.1 87.8 ±5.7 48.5 ±5.1
ZREID 90 90 0 100.1 ±6.2 19.9 ±7.0 105.6 ±6.6 100.1 ±6.2 19.9 ±7.0 105.6 ±6.6
LA 125.9 ± 4.8 38.4 ± 4.2 100.3 ± 5.7 0 90.6 ± 94.0 ± 103.4 ±9.5 87.1 ±10.0 15.3 ±7.2
LH 108.4 ± 7.8 92.3 ± 5.3 19.5 ± 7.4 91.1 ±6.3 0 90.4 ± 87.1 ±10.0 11.3 ±6.9 93.1 ±9.0
LP 133.8 ± 5.6 131.6 ± 5.0 105.2 ± 6.5 93.9 ±3.7 90.1 ±4.6 0 15.3 ±7.2 93.1 ±9.0 83.2 ±9.7
RA 125.8 ± 5.7 141.7 ± 5.9 99.9 ± 6.8 103.4 ± 9.5 87.0 ± 10.5 15.5 ± 7.4 0 90.6 ± 94.0 ±
RH 109.1 ± 7.3 88.0 ± 6.2 20.4 ± 6.9 87.2 ± 9.7 11.3 ± 6.9 92.2 ± 9.2 90.2 ±6.3 0 90.4 ±
RP 133.5 ± 5.2 48.6 ± 5.3 106.1 ± 6.8 15.0 ± 7.1 94.0 ± 9.0 83.2 ± 9.7 94.2 ±4.3 90.7 ±5.2 0
ZREID-R 89.8 ± 0.6 89.9 ± 0.3 0.6 ± 0.4 100.3 ± 5.6 19.6 ± 7.4 105.4 ± 6.4 100.2 ± 6.5 20.5 ± 6.8 106.1 ± 6.9

Angles listed are the direction angles (not Fick/Euler angles) between positive Reid's axes, +XREID (anterior), +YREID (left), +ZREID (superior), and positive tips of normal vectors perpendicular to semicircular canals as defined in the text and illustrated in Table 1A and Figure 4. ZREID-R is as defined in Table 1A and B. Below the diagonal, left, and right values are separately averaged pooled over the N = 22 subjects; italicized values above the diagonal are for all N = 44 labyrinths, after mirror-imaging each labyrinth across the YREID (midsagittal) plane, and thus represent the best symmetric estimate of the overall dataset. Note that inter-SCC angles within a single labyrinth (bold values) are close to 90°.

L = left, R = right; A, H, P = anterior, horizontal, and posterior semicircular canals, respectively.