Patent ID: 6055292
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method for producing x-ray exposures of a jaw region of a human subject, comprising the steps of:providing a detector arrangement having at least one detector with a total detector area required for an exposure composed of a plurality of sub-areas;in a first sub-exposure, irradiating one of said sub-areas of said detector with x-rays, limited by a diaphragm, emitted by an x-ray source, said x-rays passing through a subject and striking said one of said sub-areas; andfollowing said first sub-exposure, conducting at least one further sub-exposure by shifting said detector arrangement through a shift along a selected axis thereof, and synchronously adjusting said diaphragm dependent on said shift so that said x-ray beam strikes a different one of said sub-areas of said detector, until said detector area has been irradiated by x-rays.