Research Article

Evaluation of Threshold Values for Root Canal Filling Voids in Micro-CT and Nano-CT Images

Table 2

Mean volumes (and standard deviations) of the root canal filling voids in different voxel sizes according to the apical, middle, and coronal thirds.

Voxel size (μm)ApicalMiddleCervical

Nano-CT1.50.765 (0.3)0.825 (0.3)1.065 (0.5)
5.00.759 (0.3)0.774 (0.2)0.833 (0.3)

Micro-CT5.20.752 (0.3)0.77 (0.3)0.803 (0.5)
8.10.563 (0.2)0.744 (0.3)0.747 (0.4)
11.20.575 (0.2)0.694 (0.3)0.715 (0.5)
16.730.295 (0.4)0.353 (0.4)0.535 (0.9)

Different letters indicate statistical difference between voxel size groups according to Kruskal-Wallis test and post hoc Mann–Whitney test.