Digital video image processing from dental operating microscope in endodontic treatment.
Bull Tokyo Dent Coll
; 53(1): 27-31, 2012.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22452889
ABSTRACT
Recently, optical microscopes have been used in endodontic treatment, as they offer advantages in terms of magnification, illumination, and documentation. Documentation is particularly important in presenting images to patients, and can take the form of both still images and motion video. Although high-quality still images can be obtained using a 35-mm film or CCD camera, the quality of still images produced by a video camera is significantly lower. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential of RegiStax in obtaining high-quality still images from a continuous video stream from an optical microscope. Video was captured continuously and sections with the highest luminosity chosen for frame alignment and stacking using the RegiStax program. The resulting stacked images were subjected to wavelet transformation. The results indicate that high-quality images with a large depth of field could be obtained using this method.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Video Recording
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Endodontics
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Microscopy
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Bull Tokyo Dent Coll
Year:
2012
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japan