Effect of digital filtering on the measurement of the depth of proximal caries under different exposure conditions

American Journal of Dentistry

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 388-393

  Koob, Andreas ^a   Sanden, Etje ^a   Hassfeld, Stefan ^a   Staehle, Hans Jörg ^a   Eickholz, Peter ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIN; ENAMEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICS; TIME; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC MAGNIFICATION; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL, DIGITAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14544297428     PISSN: 08948275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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