Evaluation of digital and geometric unsharpness in dental radiographs using an endodontic file model

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 208-214

  Radan, Elham ^a,c   Price, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ENDODONTICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INCISOR; INSTRUMENTATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOOTH PULP; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; HUMANS; INCISOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC MAGNIFICATION; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL, DIGITAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROOT CANAL PREPARATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036483177     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.120255     Document Type: Article

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