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Heterodyne lock-in thermography of early demineralized in dental tissues

  • Fei Wang
  • , Jun yan Liu*
  • , Oliullah Mohummad
  • , Xiao chun Wang
  • , Yang Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Medical University

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Abstract

Heterodyne lock-in thermography (HeLIT) is a highly sensitive method to detect early demineralized in dental tissues, which is based on nonlinear photothermal phenomena of dental tissues. In this paper, the nonlinear photothermal phenomena of dental tissues was introduced, and then the system of HeLIT was developed. The relationship between laser modulated parameters (modulated frequency and laser intensity) and heterodyne lock-in thermal wave signal was investigated. The comparison between HeLIT and homodyne lock-in thermography (HoLIT) for detecting the different types of dental caries (smooth surface caries, proximal surface caries and occlusal surface caries) were carried out. Experimental results illustrate that the HeLIT has the merits of high sensitivity and high specificity in detecting different types of early caries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-90
Number of pages8
JournalInfrared Physics and Technology
Volume87
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017

Keywords

  • Dental tissues
  • Early demineralized
  • Heterodyne lock-in thermography
  • Nonlinear photothermal

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