Resources / Research
The published record.
Independent researchers publish with Bluelight's instruments because the measurements hold up to review. This index lists the peer-reviewed journal papers verified to name our instruments in their methods, each linked to its DOI. The wider MARC platform is involved in 200+ peer-reviewed publications.
- 200+Publications involving the MARC platform
- 19Verified below, DOI-linked
- 14Journals
- 7Countries (author affiliations)
The index
Verified against the papers themselves.
Every entry below was checked against the paper's own methods text before it was listed - a citation appears here only when the instrument is named in the methods, not on a keyword match. Filter by what the instrument was doing in the study.
- MARC-LCMeasuring the curing light itself
Generated the reference table of peak wavelength, power, and irradiance across halogen, plasma, LED, and laser curing lights for a field review of light in dentistry.
Hadis, Shortall & Palin · Biomater Investig Dent · 2024 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring the curing light itself
Its radiant-power measurements were used to convert camera images into absolute irradiance beam profiles (technical work with a Bluelight co-author).
Rocha, Oliveira, Felix, Roulet, Sinhoreti & Correr · Eur J Dent · 2022 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring the curing light itself
Characterized a four-wavelength curing light against a conventional unit on irradiance, spectrum, and composite properties - research from the USAF Postgraduate Dental School.
Adams, Savett, Lien, Raimondi & Vandewalle · J Clin Exp Dent · 2022 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring the curing light itself
Measured dental-headlight spectra across 360–800 nm, showing that blue-light emission from headlights can prematurely polymerize light-cured composites and shorten working time.
Rocha, Ottenga, Zoidis, Pontes, Reis & Oliveira · J Clin Exp Dent · 2022 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Rapid curing of bulk-fills: real-time transmission at 2 and 4 mm on both sensors, violet and blue analyzed separately, on the MARC accessory bench.
Marović, Par, Daničić et al. · Int J Mol Sci · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Two cosine-corrected sensors read top and bottom irradiance through graphene-modified orthodontic retainer adhesives during cure.
Liu, El-Angbawi, Ji, Rosa & Silikas · Eur J Oral Sci · 2024 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Blue vs red transmission through lithium-disilicate ceramic: three translucencies, three shades, six thicknesses - red penetrates significantly better.
Lencioni, Lamoutte, Pereira, Rocha & Oliveira · J Esthet Restor Dent · 2026 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Light attenuation through surface-treated CAD-CAM lithium-silicate glass ceramics, specimens centered on the bottom sensor.
Al-Johani, Haider, Silikas & Satterthwaite · Dental Materials · 2023 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Transmitted irradiance through repeatedly fired fully crystallized lithium-silicate ceramics.
Al-Johani, Haider, Silikas & Satterthwaite · J Prosthet Dent · 2024 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Per-millimetre light transmittance and ISO 4049 depth of cure of a bulk-fill under the exposure-reciprocity law at an equalized 20 J/cm².
Rocha, Roulet, Sinhoreti, Correr & Oliveira · Braz Dent J · 2021 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCMeasuring what passes through the material
Irradiance transmittance of clear PVS injection-moulding materials from 2 to 10 mm thickness.
Machado, Rocha, Oliveira, Reardon, Martins & Lawson · J Esthet Restor Dent · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Verified 3-second high-irradiance curing protocols to within ±10%, sampling 360–540 nm at 16 records per second, before degree-of-conversion testing.
Algamaiah, Alshabib, Algomaiah, Yang & Watts · Dental Materials · 2024 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Characterized the curing units behind rapid-cure and ageing work on translucency-shift bulk-fill composites.
Marović, Par, Mandic et al. · Materials · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Verified radiant emittance before every specimen in hygroscopic testing of nano-ZnO resin composites.
Alayed, Silikas & Watts · Eur J Oral Sci · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Verified emittance for hydrolytic-degradation testing of giomer and fluoride-releasing bulk-fill composites.
Aldhafyan, Khan, Saeed, Al-Odayni et al. · ACS Omega · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Top-sensor verification behind flexural, roughness, sorption, and colour-stability testing of commercial bulk-fills.
Almulhim, Alghamdi, Alqahtani et al. · Dentistry Journal · 2026 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCTrusted as the calibrated reference
Verified radiant emittance in colour-stability and hardness work under GERD-like acid conditions.
AlQahtani · Saudi Dental Journal · 2025 · DOI ↗
- MARC-LCIndependently validated
Independently benchmarked against a Labsphere integrating-sphere gold standard - University of Birmingham, no Bluelight author: adjusted R² above 0.99, no significant difference in pooled mean power, derived irradiance within ~0.8% of the reference.
Shortall, Hadis & Palin · PLOS ONE · 2021 · DOI ↗
- CheckMARCCheckMARC, validated on the bench
CheckMARC measurements landed typically within 2% of a benchtop integrating sphere across eight brands of LED curing light - the validation behind the chairside service.
Shortall, Felix & Watts · Dental Materials 31(4): 339-350 · 2015 · PubMed ↗
This index is deliberately conservative: it lists journal papers whose methods explicitly name the MARC Light Collector or CheckMARC. The wider MARC platform is involved in 200+ peer-reviewed publications across dental materials science. If you have published with a MARC instrument and don't see your paper here, or you are designing a study and want to talk methods, we'd like to hear from you.
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