Analysis of photostimulable phosphor image plate artifacts and their prevalence
Sara Mohamed Elkhateeb, Ashwag Yagoub Aloyouny, Mohamed Mohamed Saeed Omer, Soad Mahmoud Mansour
Sara Mohamed Elkhateeb, Ashwag Yagoub Aloyouny, Soad Mahmoud Mansour, Department of Basic Dental Science, College of Dentistry, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Mohamed Saeed Omer, College of Dentistry, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Author contributions: Elkhateeb S designed and performed the research, reviewed the literature, contributed to the analysis, wrote and revised the manuscript; Mansour S performed the research, wrote and revised the manuscript; Aloyouny A provided clinical advice and revised the manuscript; Omer M contributed to data collection.
Supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, through the Program of Research Project Funding After publication, No. 41-PRFA-P-16.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University.
Informed consent statement: Clinical data were collected anonymously. Moreover, participants were not required to obtain informed consent to this study because all patients agreed to treatment, sharing clinical data, and participation in research by written consent at the very first visit at College of Dentistry, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman university.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: Dataset is available from the corresponding author at ayaloyouny@pnu.edu.sa. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Ashwag Yagoub Aloyouny, DDS, Doctor, Department of Basic Dental Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, King Khalid International Airport Road, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia. ayaloyouny@pnu.edu.sa
Received: June 14, 2021
Peer-review started: June 14, 2021
First decision: October 18, 2021
Revised: October 25, 2021
Accepted: December 10, 2021
Article in press: December 10, 2021
Published online: January 14, 2022
