Abstract: In a method of imaging an object, for dental purposes, comprises:

Abstract: A dental device having at least one pneumatically operable handpiece, the rotational speed of which can be influenced by a control element designed as a foot-operated switch, and a further handpiece, which can be driven by means of an electric drive, and the compressed air present at the pneumatic handpiece influences the control of the electric drive. A graduated filter is mounted on a pneumatically actuated hollow body and the graduated filter has regions thereon which can be sensed by a light barrier generating an electric signal in dependence on the properties of the regions.

Abstract: The current positioning data of a machining tool with regard to a reference surface of a workpiece or of a body connected to the workpiece, is determined. The tool and the workpiece to be machined are relatively moveable toward and away from one another, and the rotary speed of a drive motor for the tool is set to a starting rotary speed which is so low that, when the tool comes into contact with the reference surface, its rotary speed is measurably reduced, the reference surface is moved past the tool before the tool is in contact and while the tool is in contact. As a result, the braking moments in the bearings are increased, and the drive motor comes to a stop quicker.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording medical objects, in particular for recording models of prepared teeth, comprising a position-sensitive sensor (2), which is movable in the projection direction, with a projection unit and a receiving unit (13-15; 18-21), and with a certain triangulation angle (&agr;) located between the projection path of the rays (10) of the projection unit (13-15) and the observation path of the rays (11) of the receiving unit (18-21), and with the projection path of the rays (10) aligned parallel to the direction of movement of the sensor (2), is realized for the accurate recording action of edges and steep surfaces of the type that occur in tooth cavities with a triangulation angle (&agr;) that is smaller than 10°, preferably smaller than 5°.

Abstract: A blank for producing a formed dental part has closely toleranced reference faces being arranged at one end of a blank member lying opposite a retainer projection. The reference faces comprise two surfaces lying opposite one another that have a defined spacing from one another with close tolerances. The surfaces are advantageously formed by a reference part with a cylindrical cross section that is secured onto the blank member.

Abstract: A method for the production of medical fittings, in particular dental fittings, is proposed. A workpiece (1), from which the fitting is produced, has material removed from it by machining with a tool (7). The tool (7) and the workpiece (1) execute a relative movement with respect to each other along a fixed trajectory. The instantaneous loading of the tool is used to control the speed of this relative movement. In order to avoid the load peaks which occur here, and to ensure a more uniform control, it is proposed that the expected loading of the tool along the trajectory is also calculated and is used to control the speed.

Abstract: Holding device for aligning and mounting a workpiece in an apparatus includes a receiving opening (6) provided for the holding device (20; 30), means (7) for positioning the holding device disposed in the receiving opening (6) for determination of the position of the holding device in relation to the receiving opening, wherein the holding device (20; 30) is connected with a workpiece carrier (21; 31), wherein the workpiece carrier (21; 31) is adjustable relative to the holding device, and wherein optical means (8; 11-17) are provided for viewing of the workpiece and thereby alignment of the workpiece on the holding device is performed.

Abstract: A device for production of medical fittings, in particular dental restorations, of simple construction, where it is also to be ensured that the restorations are not destroyed by the machining forces. It is of particular importance that the fittings can be made especially quickly and with precision. To achieve this, a device is proposed with a workpiece 1 which can be moved in the axial direction along a feed axis 3, with a first machining tool 5 on one side of the feed axis 3, and with a second machining tool 15 operating simultaneously on the other side of the workpiece 1, in which device the machining tools 5, 15 are designed as rods which can be set in rotation and have radial and terminal working faces 16, 17, 17′, and in which device the machining tools 5, 15, during machining of the workpiece 1, are arranged at approximately the same height relative to the feed axis 3 of the workpiece, so that they work along closely adjacent machining areas 32, 33; 44, 45.

Abstract: A method is proposed for compensating for the dark current of an electronic sensor having a plurality of pixels with an individual dark-current response, radiation for producing an image signal (BS) being directed from a beam source (3) onto a detector arrangement (4) containing the sensor, and a recording being taken with different clock-out rate (v) (integration time) by reading the detector signal (S) present in the pixels of the sensor, in which, before the beginning or after the end of the recording with radiation, the sensor is read out without radiation with at least two different clock-out rates (v1, v2) and at least two dark-current signals (DC1, DC2) are thereby picked up for each pixel, in which the dark-current signals (DC1, DC2) that have been read out are then used to calculate a dark-current value (DV) of individual pixels of the sensor as a function of the clock-out rate (v), and in which a correction is then made, using the dark-current value associated with each pixel, to the detector signal

Abstract: A method for producing a drill assistance device for a tooth implant includes the process steps of, initially the taking of an x-ray picture of the jaw and the compilation of a corresponding measured data record; then a three-dimensional, optical measurement of the visible surfaces of the jaw and of the teeth and the compilation of a corresponding measured data record. The measured data records from the x-ray picture and the measured data records from the three-dimensional, optical image are correlated with each other. Based on the information that is now available the type and position of the implant relative to the adjacent teeth is planned and a drill template is produced which is attached to the neighboring teeth, thus making the exact drilling of the implant pilot hole possible.

Abstract: A sensor that can be placed intraorally in the mouth of a patient for the production of tooth/jaw exposures of a patient has a narrow housing, approximately rectangular in a top view, for an image detector and a control circuit board to which lines are connected, which can be connected, with a free end, with an image processing unit via a connecting cable exiting from the housing at the back wall of the housing. At least one narrow side of the housing has a rounded shape that is adapted to the anatomical characteristics of the upper jaw of an average patient.

Abstract: According to the invention, a mobile signal pick-up means (11) of a diagnostics installation comprises a radiation receiver (12) for generating electrical signals dependent on the radiation shadow of a transirradiated subject, an image acquisition system (15), a calculating and storage unit (21), a display (22) as well as a communication means. A stationary evaluation means (5, 6, 7, 8) comprising a communication means is provided. The communication means are implemented as bidirectional communication means and serve for the signal transmission between the mobile signal pick-up means (11) and the stationary evaluation means (5, 6, 7, 8).

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for producing X-ray tomograms of the jaw and skull of a patient, a detector arrangement having at least one x-ray detector is provided. The radiation-sensitive area of the detector is a sub-area of the total detector area required for the subject exposure. The image exposure ensues in a number of chronologically separate sections in which, following a first sub-exposure, the detector arrangement is displaced along the longitudinal axis and/or the transverse axis of the detector surface and the diaphragm aperture of the primary diaphragm associated with the x-ray source is simultaneously correspondingly adapted so that the position of the x-ray beam is shifted so that it still strikes the detector appropriately after the detector is displaced.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus for the production of panorama slice exposures of body parts of a patient, has a rotating unit with a source of radiation and, arranged diametrically thereto, a detector camera with a radiation-sensitive CCD detector and an image-processing unit with a computer, as well as a reproduction unit. For the subsequent determination of a sharp slice and/or of the depth of field, the CCD detector is formed by a number of narrow TDI zones with clock-out columns. The image signals corresponding to the image information containing charge packets are read out from the respective individual TDI zones, and are subject to calculations in the image processing unit, so that the depth of field of a selected slice position can be determined by modifying the local displacement of the individual images using an input unit that interacts with the image processing unit.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for producing a tomosynthesis exposure of an examination subject, an X-ray beam is directed at the subject from different directions and a reference object composed of at least two sub-objects is disposed in the X-ray beam together with the subject. X-rays attenuated by the reference object composed of at least two sub-objects and the examination subject are received by a radiation receiver, which generates electrical signals corresponding to X-rays incident thereon, from which a tomosynthesis image is constructed.

Abstract: A mechanism is presented for the constraint-coupled adjustment of seat and backrest of a dental patient chair, whereby the seat-side end of the backrest is guided in a curved guide of the seat carrier, and whereby the seat carrier is pivotably connected to an upper part around a backrest-proximate tilting axis that, given an inclination of the backrest, the seat carrier with seat and leg support is tilted back around the tilting axis and, conversely, is tilted forward when the backrest is raised up. Inventively, a flexible, bendable force transmission element is provided for the constraint-coupling that has its one end secured to the upper part and has its other end secured to the seat-side end of the backrest. The force transmission element is guided over at least one roller in the fashion of a block and pulley and thus produces an adjustment motion effected by constraint-coupling of backrest and seat. A chain that is guided over chain rollers is advantageously provided as force transmission element.

Abstract: A dental apparatus is provided with a group of standard preparation instruments that are held in deposit devices having sensors allocated to each device to determine the configuration and deposit condition of the preparation instrument in the deposit device, the apparatus has a second group of non-preparation instruments which include image-acquiring instruments for diagnostic purposes. Both instrument groups or types share a personal computer with a keyboard and a monitor in common through one interface data where the instrument-related functions can be read in and read out so that the installed program of the personal computer is activated dependent on the particular instrument being used.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostics apparatus for tomosynthesis has a radiation emitter and a reference object exclusively connected thereto so that the reference object has a fixed reference relationship to the radiation emitter. It is thus possible to determine the spacing of the radiation emitter from the radiation receiver and from the examination subject, the radiation angle and the transirradiation direction on the basis of the signals obtained from the radiation receiver upon transirradiation of the reference subject without having the reference object representing an impediment in the region of the examination subject.

Abstract: This invention relates to the supporting of a patient in a proper position for a treatment, particularly for a dental and/or orosurgical and/or orthodontic treatment. A patient to be treated is supported in a certain position on a treating chair or a treating couch (1) and the treating chair or the treating couch (1) moves that region in which the patient is to be treated, particularly the tooth or jaw region, to a spatial position which is defined by the height of the treating physician and which has previously been stored for a given treating physician or is stored by the treating physician. In dependence on previously determined stored parameters that region in which the patient is to be treated is located at that spatial position for different treatments, particularly of the tooth and/or jaw regions.