Avaliação da eficiência de dois programas na eliminação de ruído para técnica de subtração

The aim of this study was to compare the quality of image registration of two computer programs by means of digital subtraction radiography (DSR). The sample comprised 294 direct digital periapical radiographs. This sample was obtained from a previous study in which 49 mandibular teeth (central incisors, laterals incisors, cuspids and bicuspids), were radiographed with 6 different x-ray beam angles: 0° horizontal with 0°, 10° and 20° vertical, and 10° horizontal with 0°, 10° and 20° vertical. The radiographs were registered with EMAGO and Regeemy. The registered images were subtracted from their respective reference images with Image Tool 1.27. The quality of the registered images was evaluated by the mean values of the standard deviation (SD) of gray levels on the subtracted images,using the histogram tool of Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Paired t-test was adopted to compare the mean SD for the gray levels between Reegemy and Emago. The results demonstrated statistically significant differences on the quality of image registrations of the programs for all variations of angle. Higher SD was found for the subtractions obtained with registered images of EMAGO. The SD for gray levels is the usual parameter for evaluation of image noise on subtracted images. Since lower SD was observed for the gray levels of subtractions obtained with registered images from Reegemy, we concluded that Regeemy achieved better performance on image registration for the subtraction techinique.