The applicability of using different energy levels in CT imaging for differentiation or identification of dental restorative materials

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 543-549

  Kutschy, Josef M ^a   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a   Berger, Nicole ^a,b   Ruder, Thomas D ^a,c   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ebert, Lars C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dental materials; Dual source dual energy CT; Forensic identification; Forensic radiology; Single source dual energy CT; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

DENTAL MATERIAL;

ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL SURGERY; DENTISTRY; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MOLAR TOOTH; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ARTIFACTS; DENTAL MATERIALS; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTAL RESTORATION, TEMPORARY; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; MOLAR, THIRD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84919916311     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-014-9595-y     Document Type: Article

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