Recognition of root canal orifices in video sequences as a future support system during endodontic treatment

Dan Dominik Brüllmann1, Patrick Alvarez, Britta Willershausen

  • 1Department of Oral Surgery, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. bruellmd@mail.uni-mainz.de

Journal of Endodontics
|October 6, 2009
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