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Optical Polarimetric Detection for Dental Hard Tissue Diseases Characterization

Dental enamel constitutes the outer layer of a crown of teeth and grows nearly parallel. This unique nanostructure makes enamel possess birefringence properties. Currently, there is still no appropriate clinical solution to examine dental hard tissue diseases. Therefore, we developed an optical pola...

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Autores principales: Hsiao, Tien-Yu, Lee, Shyh-Yuan, Sun, Chia-Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31739635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19224971
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description Dental enamel constitutes the outer layer of a crown of teeth and grows nearly parallel. This unique nanostructure makes enamel possess birefringence properties. Currently, there is still no appropriate clinical solution to examine dental hard tissue diseases. Therefore, we developed an optical polarization imaging system for diagnosing dental calculus, caries, and cracked tooth syndrome. By obtaining Stokes signals reflected from samples, Mueller images were constructed and analyzed using Lu-Chipman decomposition. The results showed that diattenuation and linear retardance images can distinguish abnormal tissues. Our result also aligns with previous studies assessed by other methods. Polarimetric imaging is promising for real-time diagnosing.
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spelling pubmed-68914172019-12-12 Optical Polarimetric Detection for Dental Hard Tissue Diseases Characterization Hsiao, Tien-Yu Lee, Shyh-Yuan Sun, Chia-Wei Sensors (Basel) Article Dental enamel constitutes the outer layer of a crown of teeth and grows nearly parallel. This unique nanostructure makes enamel possess birefringence properties. Currently, there is still no appropriate clinical solution to examine dental hard tissue diseases. Therefore, we developed an optical polarization imaging system for diagnosing dental calculus, caries, and cracked tooth syndrome. By obtaining Stokes signals reflected from samples, Mueller images were constructed and analyzed using Lu-Chipman decomposition. The results showed that diattenuation and linear retardance images can distinguish abnormal tissues. Our result also aligns with previous studies assessed by other methods. Polarimetric imaging is promising for real-time diagnosing. MDPI 2019-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6891417/ /pubmed/31739635 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19224971 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31739635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19224971
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