Coronal plane

As a frontal plane (also coronal or coronal plane ) is called in medicine the visible in a front view of the human movement plane. The frontal plane divide the body into front and back; Movements in this plane, see from left to right or from top to bottom instead.

The plain light blue shown in the picture is a frontal plane. All to their parallel planes, i.e., forward or backward displaced levels, also frontal plane.

When a pair of spectacles, the lenses lie in a frontal plane. If you flat on your back, the base forms a frontal plane.

In radiology, and especially the tomographic imaging can play frontal sections (also called coronal or Koronarschnitte called ), so either parallel captured to a frontal plane or subsequently reconstructed in this orientation image data, an important role. From the tomographic investigation in this plane, the coronal layers with which one " slice by slice " considered the patients studied from the front to the back of his body found.