Patent ID: 6829326
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method for imaging the head area by using a line detector camera (8) equipped with a digital detector, at which line detector camera is directed an X-ray beam (11) through the object being imaged, in which method is used an apparatus (1) which, makes possible the implementation of cephalometric imaging and at least one other imaging method, such as panoramic imaging, which apparatus comprises an X-ray source (5), a primary collimator (6) in conjunction with the X-ray source, at least one line detector camera (8), which is located to a position further away from the X-ray source (5) for implementing cephalometric imaging and/or to a position closer to the said X-ray source for the said other imaging method, end a secondary collimator (9) in the vicinity of the line detector camera (8) intended for cephalometric imaging, characterised in that in the method, the radiation emitted from the X-ray source (5) is collimated in cephalometric imaging in such a way that the ray beam (11) bypasses the position of the line detector camera (8) closer to the X-ray source (5).