FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF LASER COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY OF HUMAN TOOTH BY COHERENT DETECTION IMAGING

Authors
DEVARAJ B KOBAYASHI M USA M TAKEDA M INABA H ISHIHATA H HORIUCHI H
Citation
B. Devaraj et al., FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF LASER COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY OF HUMAN TOOTH BY COHERENT DETECTION IMAGING, Electronics Letters, 31(11), 1995, pp. 874-876
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
31
Issue
11
Year of publication
1995
Pages
874 - 876
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1995)31:11<874:FDOLCO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The optical heterodyne technique with an argon laser as the source is used to obtain the first laser tomographic images of an extracted huma n tooth. The different layers of the internal structure of tooth such as dentine and pulp cavity can be clearly discerned with submillimetre resolution.