We have often observed oblique incident X-rays' images in roentgenographs taken by the bisecting intra-oral technique because a dental X-ray film has a double emulsion and is about 200 pm in its thickness.
The double emulsion brings the double image. The thickness of the film and the oblique incidence of X-rays to the film make a difference in parallax between the image of the front and the back of the film which produce the double image. The parallax makes unsharpness image. We investigated the change in parallax unsharpness arising with incident angle of X-ray.
The results are summarized as follows:
1) The thickness of the dental film was 190.0±1.2 pm.
2) Geometric unsharpness of intra-oral roentgenography consists of a partial shadow of X-ray focus and additionally the parallax.
3) As increasing the incident angles of X-rays the unsharpness increases with an effect of partial shadow.
4) Unsharpness was the smallest at the geometric position in which partial shadow of X-ray focus was the smallest.
5) Parallax unsharpness have a small value in paralleing technique in which X-rays penetrate the film with small incident angles.
From these results, we could conclude that we could interpret without the parallax unsharpness by observing the film from the same direction as X-ray incident.
In order to reduce the X-ray oblique incident effect, radiograph must be taken with a small X-ray incident angle, not to bent the film, while taking, and we have to observe the film from the direction of incident X-rays.
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