Imaging of human tooth enamel using ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 526-529

  Culjat, M ^a   Singh, R S ^a   Yoon, D C ^b   Brown, E R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Acoustic signal analysis; Biomedical acoustic imaging; Dentino enamel junction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; HYDROPHONES; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOOTH ENAMEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; DENTINO-ENAMEL JUNCTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DENTIN; ECHOGRAPHY; ENAMEL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; VALIDATION STUDY;

DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOLAR, THIRD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038278912     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809141     Document Type: Article

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