Correlation of quantitative light-induced fluorescence and optical coherence tomography applied for detection and quantification of early dental caries

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 642-647

  Amaechi, Bennett T ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian ^b   Higham, Susan M ^c   Jackson, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caries diagnosis; Confocal imaging; Dental caries; Dental imaging; Low coherence interferometry; Optical coherence tomography; Quantitative light induced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

DEMINERALIZATION; DENTAL CARIES; QUANTITATIVE LIGHT INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (QLF); REFLECTIVITY LOSS;

COHERENT LIGHT; DENTISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; TISSUE; TOOTH ENAMEL;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENTAL CARIES; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INCISOR; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DENTAL CARIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCISOR; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 0347593537     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1606685     Document Type: Article

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