Relationship between density variability and imaging volume size in cone-beam computerized tomographic scanning of the maxillofacial region: an in vitro study

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 420-425

  Katsumata, Akitoshi ^a   Hirukawa, Akiko ^b   Okumura, Shinji ^b   Naitoh, Munetaka ^b   Fujishita, Masami ^a   Ariji, Eiichiro ^b   Langlais, Robert P ^c  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MANDIBLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 59649097468     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2008.05.049     Document Type: Article

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