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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, FI;
Inventor:
Lasse Toimela, Espoo, FI;
Assignee:
Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2013.01); A61B 6/5241 (2013.01); A61B 6/547 (2013.01); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/4435 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention generally relates to generating digital dental panoramic images from multiple frame images acquired during a dental panoramic imaging scan about a patient's head. This generating includes using information of location and orientation of the x-ray beam and the x-ray detector at times when taking the frames in the procedure of summing information of the frames.