Patent ID: 6944265

Claim:
A device for use in generating composite x-ray images having an x-ray source and a first controller for controlling the operation of the x-ray source comprising: a digital x-ray detector configured to detect x-rays transmitted from the x-ray source through a subject of interest without an image intensifier, the detector detecting image data for a field of view; a position change mechanism that changes a relative position between the subject of interest and the x-ray detector; a second controller coupled to the position change mechanism that controls a change in a relative position between the x-ray detector and the subject of interest to at least a first relative position and a second relative position; and a third controller that controls collection of at least a first image detected at the first relative position and a second image detected at the second relative position, the first and second images being capable of being pasted together to form a pasted image with an image field of view larger than the field of view of the individual images, and which third controller is coupled to the first controller and the second controller.