Evaluation of trabecular bone patterns on dental radiographic images: influence of cortical bone

Yves Amouriq; Pierre Evenou; Aurore Arlicot; Nicolas Normand; Pierre Layrolle; Pierre Weiss; Jean-Pierre Guédon

doi:10.1117/12.843964

9 March 2010 Evaluation of trabecular bone patterns on dental radiographic images: influence of cortical bone

Yves Amouriq, Pierre Evenou, Aurore Arlicot, Nicolas Normand, Pierre Layrolle, Pierre Weiss, Jean-Pierre Guédon

Proceedings Volume 7626, Medical Imaging 2010: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 76261M (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843964
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

For some authors trabecular bone is highly visible in intraoral radiographs. For other authors, the observed intrabony trabecular pattern is a representation of only the endosteal surface of cortical bone, not of intermedullary striae. The purpose of this preliminary study was to investigate the true anatomical structures that are visible in routine dental radiographs and classically denoted trabecular bone. This is a major point for bone texture analysis on radiographs. Computed radiography (CR) images of dog mandible section in molar region were compared with simulations calculated from high-resolution micro-CT volumes. Calculated simulations were obtained using the Mojette Transform. By digitally editing the CT volume, the simulations were separated into trabecular and cortical components into a region of interest. Different images were compared and correlated, some bone micro-architecture parameters calculated. A high correlation was found between computed radiographs and calculated simulations from micro-CT. The Mojette transform was successful to obtain high quality images. Cortical bone did not contribute to change in a major way simulated images. These first results imply that intrabony trabecular pattern observed on radiographs can not only be a representation of the cortical bone endosteal surface and that trabecular bone is highly visible in intraoral radiographs.

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Yves Amouriq, Pierre Evenou, Aurore Arlicot, Nicolas Normand, Pierre Layrolle, Pierre Weiss, and Jean-Pierre Guédon "Evaluation of trabecular bone patterns on dental radiographic images: influence of cortical bone", Proc. SPIE 7626, Medical Imaging 2010: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 76261M (9 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843964

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