High-resolution ZTE imaging of human teeth

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1144-1151

  Weiger, Markus ^a,b,c   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^c   Bracher, Anna Katinka ^d   Köhler, Sascha ^b   Lehmann, Volker ^b   Wolfram, Uwe ^d   Hennel, Franciszek ^b   Rasche, Volker ^d  

^a BRUKER BIOSPIN AG   (Switzerland)

^b BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algebraic image reconstruction; Caries lesions; Dental filling; Dentine and enamel; Early demineralisation; High bandwidth; Transmit receive switching; Zero echo time

Indexed keywords

CARIES LESIONS; DEMINERALISATION; ECHO TIME; ENAMEL LAYERS; FIELD STRENGTHS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HUMAN TEETHS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RF EXCITATION;

ALGEBRA; DENTAL PROSTHESES; ENAMELS; FILLING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DENTIN; ENAMEL; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH FILLING; ZERO ECHO TIME IMAGING;

HUMANS; INCISOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLAR; MOLAR, THIRD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866300911     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2783     Document Type: Article

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