Optical Clearing Agents Associated with Nanoparticles for Scanning Dental Structures with Optical Coherence Tomography

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2017.jw2a.52
• Publication Date: 2017-05-08T16:09:28Z
• Authors: Vanda S. M. Carneiro; Cláudia C. B. O. ...; Anderson S. L. Gomes; Alex F. Souza; Natália C. Araújo; Rebeca F. Menezes; Marleny E. M. M. ...
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

We evaluated the use of optical clearing agents, based on glycerol associated to titanium dioxide and silver nitrate nanoparticles, to improve the optical coherence tomography imaging contrast of tooth hard tissues.