Dental x-ray installation

Details Dental x-ray installation Dental x-ray installation

1987-09-29

1989-09-26

Howell, Janice A.

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices

Beam control

Collimator

378 38, 378 21, 378 39, 378117, G21K 102

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active

048706736

ABSTRACT:
A dental x-ray diagnostics installation having a holder for film cassette and a holder for diaphragms of different sizes, which holder for diaphragms is positioned in an x-ray source so that the beam passes through the diaphragm aperture before reaching the subject. The diaphragms are interchangeable with one another and have different diaphragm apertures for the purpose of matching the x-ray beam cross-section to different film cassette formats. In order to be able to more easily execute exposures having film cassettes of different sizes, the installation of the present invention includes a sensing arrangement for determining the size and position of the format of each film cassette inserted into the holder, a logic circuit for taking the output of the sensing arrangement and directing it either to a display unit and/or to a control unit which controls the radiation source dependent on the selected film format and/or controls the adjustment mechanism for a diaphragm arrangement comprising a plurality of diaphragm apertures which are allocated to the different cassette formats.

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