Caries Detection Methods Based on Changes in Optical Properties between Healthy and Carious Tissue

Table 1

Summary of optical caries detection methods.

Optical Coherence Tomography	OCT
Polarized Raman Spectroscopy	PRS
Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography	PS-OCT
Fibre Optic Transillumination	FOTI and DiFOTI
Quantitative Light-induced Fluorescence	QLF
Laser-induced Fluorescence	LF
Transillumination with Near-Infrared light	TI-NIR
Infrared fluorescence	IR fluorescence
Near-Infrared reflectance imaging	NIR reflectance imaging
Terahertz Pulse Imaging Multiphoton imaging	TPI
Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging	TCSPC FLIM