Accuracy of the Hounsfield Unit Values Measured by Implant Planning Software
Koudai Nagata, Yusuke Kouzai, Keitaro Inaba, Manabu Fujii, Mihoko Atsumi, Katsuhiko Kimoto, Shinji Kuroda, Hiromasa Kawana · 2024
Read Accuracy of the Hounsfield Unit Values Measured by Implant Planning Software by Koudai Nagata, Yusuke Kouzai, Keitaro Inaba, Manabu Fujii, Mihoko Atsumi, Katsuhiko Kimoto, Shinji Kuroda, Hiromasa Kawana (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11674854.txt.
Description
Koudai Nagata and co-authors checked whether dental implant planning software reads bone density values correctly, in a study published in 2024. Density readings, given in Hounsfield units, guide where and how implants are placed. Several software brands offer the feature, yet its accuracy had not been verified.
The team scanned three test specimens with two kinds of CT machines and loaded the images into four planning programs. Readings from the standard medical scanner matched the known values in every program. Readings from the dental cone-beam scanner, however, missed significantly, and the programs also disagreed with each other on those scans. The authors conclude that density values from cone-beam scans cannot be trusted in such software, while the medical scanner route is sound in any of the tested programs.
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| CREATOR | Koudai Nagata, Yusuke Kouzai, Keitaro Inaba, Manabu Fujii, Mihoko Atsumi, Katsuhiko Kimoto, Shinji Kuroda, Hiromasa Kawana |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |