Open AccessEffect of calibration of a medical review monitor on the visibility of mandibular canal at dental implant sites: A cone beam CT study
Author(s) -
Mustafa Alkhader,
Malik Hudieb,
Khalid Kheirallah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_420_19
Subject(s) - visibility , medicine , cone beam computed tomography , dicom , cohen's kappa , dentistry , implant , calibration , nuclear medicine , dental implant , orthodontics , mathematics , radiology , computed tomography , statistics , optics , surgery , physics
The aim of this study was to assess the visibility of mandibular canal (MC) on cone beam CT (CBCT) images using a medical review monitor under two different calibration modes. The effect of age, gender, and location of the dental implant site was also assessed.