Quality assurance phantom for digital dental imaging

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• 作者：Peter  ; Mah DMD ; MS^a ;   ; ^{mah@uthscsa.edu} ; W. Doss  ; McDavid PhD^b ; S. Brent  ; Dove DDS ; MS^c
• 刊名：Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：November 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：112
• 期：5
• 页码：632-639
• 全文大小：1770 K

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Objective

The purpose of this research was to develop a simple quality assurance phantom that could be used for the initial calibration and follow-up testing of commercially available intraoral digital imaging systems.

Study design

A radiographic phantom was constructed that contains a calibrated step wedge for measuring dose response, an etched pattern of slits in a metallic background for measuring the spatial resolution in line pairs per millimeter, and 2 rows of wells of varying diameter and depth in an acrylic background for contrast-detail analysis. Quality assurance protocols were developed and validated.

Results

The quality assurance phantom provides a method of assessing a digital intraoral imaging system by measuring the sensitivity and dynamic range, the contrast/detail detectability and the spatial resolution.

Conclusions

This quality assurance phantom can serve as an effective means to calibrate and monitor the performance characteristics of a digital dental intraoral imaging system.