Title
A Prototype Equipment for Revelation and Digitization of Periapical Radiographic Plates
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
This work proposes a composite electronic equipment aimed at the revelation and digitization of periapical radiographic plates to automate their development process, improve their quality, and enable specialists to have a digital medical history of each patient. Normally, the image development process is performed manually by a dentist and is prone to operator errors such as spots or poor image quality. Multiple commercial solution proposals are available in the market; however, these have limits such as cost, the use of rollers to move the plates, and low digital image resolution. The state of the art presents prototypes that allow the automatic development of dental radiographic plates moving the plate through the 3 development liquids. However, rollers used can impair the development process due to direct contact and friction between them and the radiographic plates, generating artifacts or small marks on the latter. Moreover, this roller mechanism requires frequent and expensive maintenance. On the other hand, dentists must buy one machine for photographic revealing and another one for digitization, since there is not a singular machine on the market that performs both processes. For these reasons, the proposed electronic equipment has an extendable arm that holds and moves the radiographic plates in a controlled and timed immersion of the plate in the different liquids depending on temperature. Then, the image is digitized and uploaded to a cloud storage service. Validation was done by comparing the proposed equipment’s developed images with those manually done by a dentist.
Start page
622
End page
633
Volume
295 SIST
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Odontología, Cirugía oral, Medicina oral
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85135066882
ISSN of the container
21903018
ISBN of the container
9783031085444
Conference
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies: 7th Brazilian Technology Symposium, BTSym 2021
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