Early Differentiation between Caries and Tooth Demineralization Using Laser-Induced Autofluorescence Spectroscopy

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 249-253

  Borisova, Ekaterina G ^a   Uzunov, Tzonko T ^b   Avramov, Latchezar A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Chromophores; Demineralization; Fluorescence; Tooth caries

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CHROMATOPHORE; DEMINERALIZATION; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIN; ENAMEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TOOTH DISEASE;

DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; LASERS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION;

EID: 1842586617     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20009     Document Type: Article

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