Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation

Imaging Sciences International LLC

Henry Tancredi

Edward J Marandola

John Tancredi

Omid Ebrahimi Kia

Frank Speranza

An apparatus for dental and facial imaging including a rotatable gantry having an axis of rotation generally in the direction of local gravitational vertical; a source of penetrating radiation mounted on the gantry; an elongated detector for detecting radiation and producing image data, the detector mounted opposite the source on the gantry, and having a length, a long axis, and a short axis The gantry, source, and detector configured to receive the head of a patient between the source and the detector, with the axis of rotation of the gantry passing through the patient's head. The detector is mounted rotatably to the gantry and movable between a first position where the long axis of the detector is generally perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the gantry and a second position where the long axis of the detector is generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the gantry.

Adjustable scanner

For dental and facial imaging, a source of x-rays () or other penetrating radiation and a detector () are mounted opposite one another on a rotatable gantry (), so that the head of the patient can be positioned between the source () and the detector (), with the axis of rotation () of the gantry passing through the patient's head. The detector or the source are mounted so they can translate and/or pivot horizontally or vertically. The gantry is angulated so that the source or the detector may not be at the same height relative to the patient's head. The gantry can telescope, moving the source and the detector closer together or further apart. The collimator changes dynamically with the motion of the gantry and/or the source and detector to scan a smaller portion of the scan field.

For dental and facial imaging, a source of x-rays () or other penetrating radiation and a detector () are mounted opposite one another on a rotatable gantry (), so that the head of the patient can be positioned between the source () and the detector (), with the axis of rotation () of the gantry passing through the patient's head. The detector is longer in one direction than in the perpendicular direction, generally rectangular, and is rotatable between a position in which the long axis is transverse to the axis of rotation of the gantry and a position in which the long axis is generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the gantry. The length of the detector along the long axis is sufficient for fully detailed computed CT when the long axis is transverse, and for full-face CT when the long axis is parallel.

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