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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2011
Juha Koivisto, Helsinki, FI;
Kustaa Nyholm, Siuntio, FI;
Christian DE Godzinsky, Vantaa, FI;
Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to a dental computed tomography apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one color camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus from different directions and at least one laser or a corresponding lighting arrangement, which is fitted to direct a light pattern at different locations on the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means arranged into functional connection with said at least one color camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional surface model from the light-pattern information directed at different locations on the face of the patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means for combining said face image information detected by said at least color camera to said surface model of the patient's face to create a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.