Section: New Results

Signal analysis of ultrasonic dental response

Participants: H. Yahia, G. Rosi, S. Jaffard, S. Seuret.

The long-term success of a dental implant is related to the properties of the bone-implant interface. It is important to follow the evolution of bone remodeling phenomena around the implant. Methods based on ultrasound wave propagation were already successfully used by collaborators, in the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of primary and secondary stability of dental implants. Results, numerical and experimental, are analysed with signal processing tools based on multifractal methods. Analysis of the first results shows that these methods are potentially efficient in this case because they can explore and exploit the multi-scale structure of the signal.

Publication: [22].