As a diagnostic aid, the authors have deviced a new method by combining intraoralfluoroscopy and an super-sensitive TV camera system which reduced the radiation doses to a level of one millisecond the duration of one or two pulses of the alternating current cycle.
The real time system enabled an excellent intraoral view by means of a TV monitoring device without processing films.With the aid of the scan converter memory unit, the image can be “frozen” for approximately two hours, thus allowing the interpretater time for image analysis.A permanent record can be made routine photography, Polaroid Rand photography and/or videocorder.
The results were as follows:
1) This fluoroscopic screen (∅20mm) is attached to the end of intraoral endoscope, on which is formed the image of teeth and/or alveolar bones.
2) This fluoroscopic image of the screen is instantly transformed into electric signals through a super sensitive TV vidicon tube SIT, which are led to a scan converter as input and are memorized there.
3) The frozen image transfered onto the screen of a monitor TV connected to the scan converter which send out the memorized signal successively.
4) The image on the TV monitor is endowed with varieties of latitude: i, e, either a positive or negative picture is obtained by a switch, and gain or brightness control dials, on the TV monitors make possible the successive changes in brightness.Such changes in imagequality enriches a TV image obtained by a single exposure, and make it an equivalent of pulural conventional radiograms from the view point of total diagnostic information.
5) This new combination method of intraoral fluoroscopic image and TV monitoring system needs only an exposure of60kVp, 5mA with duration of0.01-0.02seconds for the diagnosis of adult anteriors and the duration of0.02-0.04seconds for posteriors.
The amount of dosage necessary for the present method ranges from1/40-1/80 (upper anteriors) to1/30-1/60 (lower posteriors) of the dosage required for one exposure in conventional radiography.
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