Tissue Mimicking Materials for Dental Ultrasound
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Identifier/URL
40204474 (Pure); 18396919 (PubMed); 41849119835 (QABO); PMC2677313 (PubMedCentral)
Abstract
While acoustic tissue mimicking materials have been explored for a variety of soft and hard biological tissues, no dental hard tissue mimicking materials have been characterized. Tooth phantoms are necessary to better understand acoustic phenomenology within the tooth environment and to accelerate the advancement of dental ultrasound imaging systems. In this study, soda lime glass and dental composite were explored as surrogates for human enamel and dentin, respectively, in terms of compressional velocity, attenuation, and acoustic impedance. The results suggest that a tooth phantom consisting of glass and composite can effectively mimic the acoustic behavior of a natural human tooth.
Repository Citation
Brown, E. R.
(2008). Tissue Mimicking Materials for Dental Ultrasound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (4), EL39-EL44.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/physics/1274
DOI
10.1121/1.2884083
