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A clean, low-noise dental radiograph presented as framed fine art on a gallery wall

06 Aug Detective Quantum Efficiency: The True Measure of a Dental Sensor, Beyond Resolution

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Every specification sheet leads with resolution — line pairs per millimetre, the sensor's finest possible line. But two sensors can share a resolution and be worlds apart at the dose you actually use. The number that separates them is detective quantum efficiency, and it is...

A dental radiograph presented as framed fine art on a gallery wall, its background deep true-black

08 Feb The Photon-Counting Detector: A New Physics Beneath the Radiograph

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For a hundred years the dental radiograph has been an average — a blur of charge summed across an exposure. The photon-counting detector refuses to average. It counts each X-ray individually, and in doing so quietly rewrites what a diagnostic image can be....