Assessment of pulpal vitality using laser speckle imaging

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 833-837

  Stoianovici, Charles ^a   Wilder Smith, Petra ^a   Choi, Bernard ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blood flow; dentistry; laser Doppler; laser speckle contrast analysis; laser speckle contrast imaging; perfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; LASER SPECKLE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE FLOW INDEX; TOOTH PULP;

DENTAL PULP; DENTISTRY; HUMANS; LASERS;

EID: 80053485192     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.21090     Document Type: Article

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