A digital radiograph captures far more shades of gray than any screen can show or any eye can see at once. Window and level is the quiet control that decides which slice of that buried range you actually look at — a non-destructive way to...
A radiograph is also a field of numbers. Dental radiomics mines the texture a trained eye cannot name — trabecular patterns, gray-level statistics, subtle lesions — and turns the image into a measurable biomarker. A look at what radiomic features are, what recent dental studies...
When a patient's anatomy spills past the edge of a cone-beam CT detector, the reconstruction cups and streaks where the data ran out. A new conditional diffusion model restores those missing measurements in the raw projections, delivering markedly cleaner scans with no new hardware and...
A cone-beam scanner will give you the dose you ask of it, and it never asks whether you needed that much. A Diagnostic Reference Level is the first honest answer to a question most practices never pose: compared with everyone else doing this exact exam,...
A face scan knows the smile but not the bone. A CBCT knows the bone but not the skin. An intraoral scan knows the teeth to the micron but nothing above the gumline. Fuse all three into one aligned 3D record and you have something...
Low dose means a noisy scan. A new class of deep-learning reconstruction rebuilds a clean, diagnostic cone-beam image from a fraction of the radiation — and asks us to read a picture the algorithm partly inferred....
For a century the dental image has lived behind glass—on film, on a lightbox, on a monitor. Augmented reality proposes something stranger and older: to lift the scan off the screen and hang it, weightless and registered, inside the patient's own head....
The temporomandibular joint is the one structure in the mouth that refuses to sit still for its portrait. It is part bone and part soft cartilage, it works as a matched pair, and it is defined by movement - three properties that no single imaging...
A cone-beam scanner does not, strictly speaking, take a picture. It measures a dense three-dimensional block of numbers - a volume - and every flat image a clinician actually looks at is a decision made afterward about how to collapse that block onto a screen....
In late July 2026, Carestream Dental announced a strategic alliance with the ADA Forsyth Institute, sealed by the donation of a state-of-the-art cone-beam computed tomography system to the institute's clinical arm. It is easy to read that as a press release. It is more interesting...