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Stephane Varlet

Aude Lagardere

Stephane Alric

Olivier Nesme

Yann Lecuyer

Laurent Boutte

Certain exemplary method and/or apparatus embodiments herein can include&#x2014;a support frame, &#x2014;a movable gantry that supports an x-ray source and an x-ray sensor in correspondence with the x-ray source and that is movable relative to the support frame, &#x2014;a patient positioning accessory support member configured to support a patient positioning accessory of a specific type that is adapted to be used in the apparatus for conducting a specific examination on a patient, where the patient positioning accessory comprises at least one passive identification element that identifies the specific type of the patient positioning accessory, and the apparatus further comprises an active identification system that is configured to cooperate with the at least one passive identification element of the patient positioning accessory in order to identify the specific type of the patient positioning accessory.

Extra oral dental imaging apparatus with patient positioning accessory detection

Certain exemplary method and/or apparatus embodiments herein can include&#x2014;acquiring a set of data relative to a patient's maxillofacial region through an x-ray CT imaging apparatus, &#x2014;reconstructing two or more types of maxillofacial data volumes from the same acquired set of data, &#x2014;displaying at least one slice of the patient's maxillofacial region with a first type of data volume among the volumes (e.g., FDK volume and MAR volume), &#x2014;selecting a region of interest (ROI) in the displayed at least one slice, a first portion of said first type of data volume being displayed within the ROI, &#x2014;displaying within the selected ROI a second portion of a second type of data volume, the at least one slice of the patient's maxillofacial region being displayed with the first type of data volume while the ROI is displayed with the second portion of the second type of data volume.

X-ray CT imaging method, interface system and apparatus

The invention concerns a dental imaging apparatus comprising: &#x2014;a support frame, &#x2014;a movable gantry that comprises two opposite arms respectively supporting an x-ray source and an x-ray sensor facing the x-ray source, &#x2014;a movable patient positioning arm connected to the support frame, &#x2014;two cameras positioned on the gantry arm supporting the x-ray source and on the positioning arm so as to respectively acquire side and front images of a patient's head, &#x2014;a display assembly configured to simultaneously display in real time a side image and a front image of the patient's head taken by the two cameras.

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Paris, France

Stephane Varlet