Patent ID: 7672425

Claim:
A dental x-ray diagnostic apparatus for performing real-time digital Cephalography of a patient skull, comprising: a base frame; a rotary frame coupled to the base frame by a cinematic unit, the rotary frame supporting an x-ray source; the cinematic unit being configured to execute roto-translational movements of the rotary frame, the roto-translational movements comprise one rotation movement, a first linear movement in a horizontal plane, and a second linear movement in the horizontal plane substantially transverse to the first linear movement, the cinematic unit comprising an independent actuator for each individual roto-translational movement of the rotary frame, and the independent actuators being controlled by a microcomputer; an x-ray imager disposed in a Cephalographic position, the x-ray imager being movable during a Cephalographic scanning process by an additional independent actuator; and the microcomputer being configured to control the independent actuators of the cinematic unit during a Cephalographic scanning process to move the x-ray source on the rotary frame along a trajectory resulting in a rotational movement of the x-ray source around a focal point of the x-ray source.