Usefulness of an energy-binned photon-counting x-ray detector for dental panoramic radiographs

Tatsumasa Fukui; Akitoshi Katsumata D.D.S.; Koichi Ogawa; Shuu Fujiwara

doi:10.1117/12.2081523

18 March 2015 Usefulness of an energy-binned photon-counting x-ray detector for dental panoramic radiographs

Tatsumasa Fukui, Akitoshi Katsumata D.D.S., Koichi Ogawa, Shuu Fujiwara

Proceedings Volume 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging; 94125O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081523
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A newly developed dental panoramic radiography system is equipped with a photon-counting semiconductor detector. This photon-counting detector acquires transparent X-ray beams by dividing them into several energy bands. We developed a method to identify dental materials in the patient’s teeth by means of the X-ray energy analysis of panoramic radiographs. We tested various dental materials including gold alloy, dental amalgam, dental cement, and titanium. The results of this study suggest that X-ray energy scattergram analysis could be used to identify a range of dental materials in a patient’s panoramic radiograph.

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Tatsumasa Fukui, Akitoshi Katsumata D.D.S., Koichi Ogawa, and Shuu Fujiwara "Usefulness of an energy-binned photon-counting x-ray detector for dental panoramic radiographs", Proc. SPIE 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging, 94125O (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081523

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