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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2026

Depolarization-Based Multimodal Optical Imaging of Carious Lesions.

Julia Grundmann, Christian Hannig, Svea Steuer, Tobias Rosenauer, Lars Kirsten, Edmund Koch, Jonas Golde, Julia Walther

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Photonic Methods for the Assessment of Lesion Activity.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Julia GrundmannTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Policlinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-1136-1826
Christian HannigTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Policlinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry, Dresden, Germany.
Svea SteuerTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring, Dresden, Germany.
Tobias RosenauerTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Policlinic of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry, Dresden, Germany.
Lars KirstenTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Dresden, Germany.
Edmund KochTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring, Dresden, Germany.
Jonas GoldeTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8160-3000
Julia WaltherTU Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Dresden, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A comprehensive image catalog from an in vitro investigation of teeth with occlusal carious lesions is provided. The aim was to visualize carious lesions using various imaging techniques in order to present different stages of caries progression and to provide reference data for the development and validation of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) as a non-ionizing diagnostic method for dental caries. The study covers a variety of approaches, bridging the gap from basic histopathological analysis of thin sections to future optical imaging of occlusal carious lesions in vivo. All measurements were performed to support the interpretation and validation of PS-OCT imaging based on the degree of polarization (DOP).

Indexed as

Dental CariesMultimodal ImagingOptical ImagingTomography, Optical CoherenceHumanscariesdepolarizationmicroscopyoptical imagingpreventive dentistryPS‐OCT

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PMID41397766
PMCPMC12980561

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