cone beam computed tomography Archives

A cone-beam CT dental scanner presented as a sculptural object on a plinth in a gallery white room under museum lighting

19 Sep The Instrument Enters the Laboratory: A Donated Cone-Beam Scanner and the Craft of Studying What We See

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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...

A translucent 3D CBCT volume of a jaw presented as a sculptural exhibit on a gallery plinth

02 Sep AI on CBCT: What 3D Segmentation Actually Finds

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A CBCT scan arrives as a fog of grey voxels. Segmentation is the act of naming them - drawing the boundary between a tooth and the bone that holds it, between the nerve canal and the space around it. Here is what the machine actually...

A brass balance scale in a gallery, one pan holding a glowing ember of radiation, the other a luminous 3D jaw scan, hanging near balance

23 Aug The Risk of Not Looking: Weighing a Cone-Beam Scan’s Radiation Against What It Reveals

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We are trained to fear the dose. We are rarely trained to fear the missed diagnosis. A cone-beam scan is a decision between two risks, not one - and the picture that goes unmade has a cost of its own....