Dental Materials
Volume 25, Issue 6 , Pages 721-728 , June 2009

Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomographic imaging of artificial demineralization on exposed surfaces of tooth roots

  • Chulsung Lee
    • ,
  • Cynthia L. Darling
    • ,
  • Daniel Fried

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 707 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143-0758, United States. Tel.: +1 415 502 6641; fax: +1 415 476 0858.

Received 27 June 2008 ,Revised 29 October 2008 ,Accepted 1 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2008.11.014

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