Dental optical coherence tomography

YS Hsieh, YC Ho, SY Lee, CC Chuang, J Tsai, KF Lin… - Sensors, 2013 - mdpi.com
This review paper describes the applications of dental optical coherence tomography (OCT)
in oral tissue images, caries, periodontal disease and oral cancer. The background of OCT …

Optical coherence tomography: fundamental principles, instrumental designs and biomedical applications

DP Popescu, LP Choo-Smith, C Flueraru, Y Mao… - Biophysical …, 2011 - Springer
The advances made in the last two decades in interference technologies, optical
instrumentation, catheter technology, optical detectors, speed of data acquisition and …

Optical coherence tomography-principles and applications

AF Fercher, W Drexler, CK Hitzenberger… - Reports on progress in …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
There have been three basic approaches to optical tomography since the early 1980s:
diffraction tomography, diffuse optical tomography and optical coherence tomography …

Dental oct

BW Colston, US Sathyam, LB DaSilva, MJ Everett… - Optics express, 1998 - opg.optica.org
We present here the first in vivo optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of human
dental tissue. A novel dental optical coherence tomography system has been developed …

Methods for assessment of dental erosion

T Attin, FJ Wegehaupt - Erosive Tooth Wear, 2014 - karger.com
Various assessment techniques have been applied to evaluate the loss of dental hard tissue
and the surface-softened zone in enamel induced by erosive challenges. In this chapter, the …

Application of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for diagnosis of caries, cracks, and defects of restorations

Y Shimada, A Sadr, Y Sumi, J Tagami - Current oral health reports, 2015 - Springer
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive technique providing cross-sectional
images of a tooth structure. This review describes the use of OCT for detecting dental caries …

Measurement of the refractive index of human teeth by optical coherence tomography

Z Meng, XS Yao, H Yao, Y Liang, T Liu… - … of biomedical optics, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We describe a novel method based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the accurate
measurement of the refractive index of in vitro human teeth. We obtain the refractive indices …

Quantifying and qualifying surface changes on dental hard tissues in vitro

J Field, P Waterhouse, M German - Journal of dentistry, 2010 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Tooth surface loss (TSL) is an increasingly recognised problem. We are
therefore seeing an increase in the number and complexity of in vitro studies investigating …

Effects of structural orientation of enamel and dentine on light attenuation and local refractive index: an optical coherence tomography study

I Hariri, A Sadr, Y Shimada, J Tagami, Y Sumi - Journal of dentistry, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To investigate optical properties of human enamel and dentine in relationship
to structural orientation of enamel prisms and dentinal tubules by optical coherence …

Imaging artificial caries on the occlusal surfaces with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

RS Jones, CL Darling, JDB Featherstone, D Fried - Caries research, 2006 - karger.com
Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) is a nondestructive imaging
system that can utilize near-infrared (IR) light to produce depth-resolved images of dental …