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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Esa Suuronen, Kerava, FI;
Instrumentarium Corp., Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for imaging the head area of a patient by taking both cephalometric X-ray and photographic images of desired objects to be imaged. The method is conducted by using a mechanism ( ) applicable to cephalometric X-ray imaging, which comprises an X-ray source ( ) in front of an object, an X-ray receiving element behind the object, and patient positioning implements ( ). The apparatus is further fitted with photographic instruments ( ) for taking photographs from an object to be imaged. In the method, a patient is placed by means of the patient positioning implements ( ) in a desired imaging position and imaged in the same imaging position in both modes of imaging.