Patent ID: 11963812
Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
produce a panoramic tomographic image of an object to be recorded using a 2D panoramic X-ray device, in the course of which X-rays produced by means of an X-ray source irradiate the object and are acquired by means of an X-ray detector, wherein, during a movement of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector around the object, a number of 2D X-ray projection images are acquired from different acquisition directions, wherein a first panoramic tomographic image is calculated from the acquired 2D X-ray projection images using a reconstruction method, wherein the acquired 2D X-ray projection images are modified using a modification method, wherein, from the modified 2D X-ray projection images and using the reconstruction method, a second panoramic tomographic image is calculated with a higher weighting of artifacts relative to anatomical structures, wherein a third panoramic tomographic image is calculated by combining the first panoramic tomographic image and the second panoramic tomographic image with defined weighting factors such that the artifacts in the third panoramic tomographic image are reduced in comparison to the first panoramic tomographic image.