{"id":7445,"date":"2017-11-13T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/?page_id=7445"},"modified":"2020-06-04T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:37:23","slug":"digital-volume-tomography-dvt","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/digital-volume-tomography-dvt\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital volume tomography (DVT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The digital volume tomography is an X-ray computed tomography which allows three-dimensional imaging of the examined tissue. Due to the cone beam technique there&rsquo;s less radiation exposure compared to the older computed tomography (CT). Nonetheless, a high-resolution DVT still has a multiple of the radiation exposure of conventional orthodontic X-rays like <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/opg\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Abbreviation for orthopantomogram, a radiographic overview of teeth and jaws &nbsp;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">OPG<\/a><\/u> or <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/ceph\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"This is the abbreviation for a Cephalogram which is a side-view X-ray of the skull. Unfortunately, this is usually described as a &lsquo;lateral tele-radiograph&rsquo; in German (FRS), which is not&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Ceph<\/a><\/u>. In <u>orthodontics<\/u> DVT is used to detect retained or redundant teeth. On the other hand, patients should pay attention if doctors take DVTs from all patients: There&rsquo;s no justification for it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DVT eines Kopfes: technisch beeindruckend, aber selten n&ouml;tig\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dvt-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DVT of a head: technically impressive, but rarely necessary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The digital volume tomography is an X-ray computed tomography which allows three-dimensional imaging of the examined tissue. Due to the cone beam technique there\u2019s less radiation exposure compared to the older computed tomography (CT). Nonetheless, a high-resolution DVT still has a multiple of the radiation exposure of conventional orthodontic X-rays like OPG or Ceph. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-7445","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/7445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13544,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/7445\/revisions\/13544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}