Patent ID: 9678420
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61B,G03B,G06K

Claim:
1. An arrangement for medical imaging comprising: an image plate; an X-ray device for producing an image on the image plate of a patient's mouth examined; a reading device for reading image information contained in the image plate; a tag, which can be remotely written to and read from, attached to the image plate wherein the arrangement is adapted to write information in the tag or associated with an ID of the tag and read information in the tag or associated with the ID of the tag, wherein the information in the tag or associated with the ID of the tag comprises information about the location of the image plate with respect to the teeth of the patient's mouth, and to produce information about a location of the image plate with respect to an anatomy of the patient's mouth examined, other image plates used in an imaging operation, or the X-ray device; and a display adapted to display an image template representing teeth of the patient's mouth and to display the image information read from the image plate in a location on the image template.