Patent ID: 7580502

Claim:
A system for positioning a dental X-ray apparatus, comprising: an input and output device for interactive control, a storage area, in which at least one panoramic digitized dental X-ray image and information concerning the dental X-ray apparatus assignable to the digitized dental X-ray image are stored, a computer interface, via which information can be interchanged with the dental X-ray apparatus, means for selecting areas in the digitized dental X-ray image, and a processing unit which effects calculations based on the digitized dental X-ray image, the relevant information concerning the dental X-ray apparatus, and the selected area, in order to ascertain control data for controlling the dental X-ray apparatus such that the selected area is covered when a new dental X-ray image is made, the information concerning the X-ray apparatus comprises coordinates of a trajectory which have been saved in relation to the digitized X-ray image, the processing unit further effects calculations of the trajectory which gives knowledge of movement of the dental X-ray apparatus carried out at a certain point of time.