TY - CHAP AU - Tatsurou Tanaka AU - Yasuhiro Morimoto AU - Tatsurou Tanaka AU - Shinji Kito AU - Ayataka Ishikawa AU - Shinya Kokuryo AU - Noriaki Yamamoto AU - Manabu Habu AU - Ikuya Miyamoto AU - Masaaki Kodama AU - Shinobu Matsumoto-Takeda AU - Masafumi Oda AU - Nao Wakasugi-Sato AU - Kozue Otsuka AU - Shunji Shiiba AU - Yuji Seta AU - Yoshihiro Yamashita AU - Izumi Yoshioka AU - Kou Matsuo AU - Tetsu Takahashi AU - Kazuhiro Tominaga AU - Yasuhiro Morimoto ED - Luca Saba Y1 - 2011-11-21 PY - 2011 T1 - Application of CT for the Study of Pathology of the Jaws N2 - CT has evolved into an indispensable imaging method in clinical routine. The first generation of CT scanners developed in the 1970s and numerous innovations have improved the utility and application field of the CT, such as the introduction of helical systems that allowed the development of the "volumetric CT" concept. Recently interesting technical, anthropomorphic, forensic and archeological as well as paleontological applications of computed tomography have been developed. These applications further strengthen the method as a generic diagnostic tool for non destructive material testing and three dimensional visualization beyond its medical use. BT - Computed Tomography SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/24207 DO - 10.5772/24207 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -