The Yoshida Dental Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yoshida Creation Inc.

Takanori Wagatsuma

Haiyin Wang

Terumi Takemoto

Takeshi Tomoe

Hisanori Nakahama

Katsumi Niwa

Conventional X-ray photographing has several problems for eliminating the influence from the cervical vertebrae such as rework of original images, causing possible loss of useful information, as well as long processing time and the need for a plurality of panoramic images. The X-ray photographic device according to the present invention can eliminate the influence from the cervical vertebrae projected at around the anterior teeth of the panoramic image of a tooth row, without missing the original image information and without influence of different shapes of cervical vertebrae and X-ray permeability by each subject. In addition, as the present invention achieves these through arithmetic processing, there is no need to intensify X-ray output in the section corresponding to the anterior teeth, nor decelerate the rotating speed of arms during photographing, and it is possible to suppress the X-ray dose received by the subject.

X-ray photographic device, image processing method thereof, and program

An X-ray photographing device includes an X-ray irradiating unit () for irradiating an object () with an X-ray beam () having a slit shape from a source (), and an imaging member () provided with a surface () to receive the X-ray beam. A pivot drive unit causes the irradiating unit () and the imaging member () to pivot about a pivoting center line (La) around the object (), and a sub-drive unit () causes the imaging member () to have a local motion in a circumferential direction with a shift width (Mw). A width (W) of the surface () in the circumferential direction is smaller than the shift width (Mw) and the local motion is a local rotation motion made on the rotation center line (Lc). This configuration reduces the cost of the device, reduces vibrations of the imaging member (), and enhances operating efficiency.

X-ray photographing device

Tomographic images in a plurality of radius places are obtained in one-time X-ray photographing, and a lot of information on the diagnose can be provided by forming a stereoscopic image with these obtained tomographic images, and thickness of radial and fineness of angular direction of tomographic image that can be obtained herein compared with prior art can be set arbitrary and can be adjusted thereby obtaining further imperceptible stereoscopic image. To this end, whole photographed images at respective divided unit angles that can be obtained in the digital dental panoramic radiography apparatus at the tomography in the circular orbit, are stored, after X-ray photographed, these photographed images are arranged substantially on the circular arc at the radius place of the tomographic image of the desired extracting part, tomographic images in radius location can be constructed by adding while shifting every photograph unit angle.

Method of constructing multi-tomographic image and digital 3 D X-ray photographing apparatus

X-ray device

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Tokyo, Japan

Takanori Wagatsuma