Beam hardening artefacts occur in dental implant scans with the NewTom® cone beam CT but not with the dental 4-row multidetector CT

Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 198-203

  Draenert, F G ^a   Coppenrath, E ^a   Herzog, P ^a   Muller S ^a   Mueller Lisse, U G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam hardening artefact; Computed tomography (CT); Dental implant

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXILLA; MOLAR TOOTH; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; SKULL; TOOTH IMPLANTATION;

ARTIFACTS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; MAXILLA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347238633     PISSN: 0250832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/dmfr/32579161     Document Type: Article

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