Dependency of dose response of five charge-coupled device-based digital intra-oral radiographic systems on tube voltage.
OBJECTIVE
To compare the dependency of dose response of five CCD-based digital intra-oral radiographic systems on tube voltage.


METHODS
Characteristic curves for Sens-A-Ray (old and new generations; Regam Medical Systems, Sundsvall, Sweden), Computed Dental Radiography (Schick Technologies, Long Island City, NY, USA), CompuRay (Yoshida, Tokyo, Japan), and VIXA (Dentsply/Gendex, Des Plaines, IL, USA) were generated between 60 and 90 kVp at intervals of 10 kVp and corrected by subtraction of dark current. Their sensitivities were compared.


RESULTS
The sensitivity of the old generation Sens-A-Ray decreased with increase in tube voltage whereas in the other systems it increased.


CONCLUSIONS
In the newer systems using a rare earth intensifying screen as a scintillator, the sensitivity increases with increase in tube voltage, thus reducing the radiation dose to the patient.
Nishikawa
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Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan.
Shibuya
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Wakoh
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Kuroyanagi
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D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004560:Electricity; D006801:Humans; D008674:Metals, Rare Earth; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D019252:Radiography, Dental, Digital / Q000295:instrumentation; D014963:X-Ray Intensifying Screens; D014965:X-Rays
D008674:Metals, Rare Earth