Development of a new diagnosis method for incipient caries in human teeth based on thermal images under pulse heating

JSME International Journal, Series A: Solid Mechanics and Material Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-98

  Sakagami, Takahide ^a   Kubo, Shiro ^a   Naganuma, Takeshi ^b   Inoue, Tomoyasu ^a   Matsuyama, Kazumasa ^b   Nakashima, Shoji ^b   Kaneko, Kenji ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LION CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demineralization; Incipient caries; Infrared thermography; Noninvasive diagnosis method; Pulse heating; Tooth; Xenon flash lamp

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); XENON;

HUMAN TEETH;

INFRARED IMAGING;

MEDICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 0041326394     PISSN: 13447912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmea.46.93     Document Type: Article

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