Abstract: An arrangement for positioning an X-ray machine, with an input and an output device, for interactive control, with a memory region, in which digitised X-ray images and X-ray machine data are stored, an interface, by means of which information is exchanged with the X-ray machine, a pointing device for selecting regions in digitized X-ray images, a processing unit, which carries out calculations based on the digitized X-ray images, the associated X-ray machine data and the selected region, in order to determine control data such that the X-ray machine is controlled whereby, on taking an image, the selected region is screened.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image for creating digital images. In the image detector there are present means for receiving and storing administrative data.

Abstract: In a method and computer program for checking an image reproduction device a test zone is included as a partial region of the displayed image. An image parameter is assigned to the test zone and a partial region of the test zone is altered with regard to the image parameter. An input by the user is detected upon identification of a difference in the image parameter between the partial region and the remaining test zone. The image parameter of the partial region is stored and it, or of a transformation thereof, is composed with a predetermined guide value for the image parameter.

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: 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: A radiation diagnostic installation includes a panorama scanner for tomographically scanning a subject with radiation and for generating electrical signals dependent on the radiation shadow of the subject. A signal processor includes a memory for storing the electrical signals during the tomographic scanning and a computer for calculating signals corresponding to a tomogram of the subject in a desired slice position. The computer determines the desired slice position from the calculation of individual slice positions and their evaluation, thereby enabling faster production of tomograms in a desired slice position.

Abstract: A line detector camera suitable for employment in a dental x-ray diagnostics apparatus contains an x-ray-sensitive detector held in a housing, the detector containing a plurality of detector elements that are arranged to form one or more lines, and having contacts connected to control lines that are in turn connected to a connector part. The connector part makes both electrical and mechanical connection in a releasable manner to a correspondingly fashioned holder of the x-ray diagnostics apparatus.

Abstract: In a method for acceptance and stability testing of filmless dental radiographic equipment a test measurement body having a plurality of absorption elements which absorb differently is arranged in the beam path of the X-rays at a defined close distance from a radiation-sensitive sensor. The electric signals obtained from the sensor are fed to a computing unit which processes these to form image value signals which are then fed either directly to a display unit or are firstly compared with prescribed desired image values and, in the case of deviations, fed to the display unit. The test measurement body includes a holder for reproducibly holding a sensor which can be applied intraorally to a patient.

Abstract: An x-ray apparatus has a portable radiation detector having a housing containing a radiation transducer formed of individual detector cells that convert incident radiation, particularly x-radiation, into electrical signals. The radiation detector is implemented cable-free. A wireless transceiver for the infeed of operating energy and for the outfeed of the signals is provided. An advantage of this radiation detector is the cable-free construction, and the simple manipulation and reusability resulting therefrom. Moreover, the radiation detector is better suited to hygienic demands.

Abstract: In a dental x-ray diagnostics installation that includes an x-ray radiator, an image detector arranged diametrically relative thereto a CCD following the subject to be transirradiated in radiation direction, control electronics with a control part for driving the image detector, an image processing unit that edits the signals acquired from the image detector, and an operating device with which the x-ray radiator can be switched on and off, the image detector is continuously read out with a clock generator and the incoming data read from the detector are constantly subjected to a threshold check. The image detector is operated in a read-out mode when the x-ray radiator is switched off and is switched into an exposure mode given the presence of radiation and the upward transgression of a defined threshold, and vice versa.

Abstract: An x-ray diagnostics installation for producing x-ray exposures of body parts of a patient has a line detector camera arranged diametrically opposite a radiation source, the line detector camera containing an x-ray detector arranged behind a slot-shaped opening, the width of the x-ray detector being matched to the width or length of the body part to be registered. An adjustment system adjusts the line detector camera relative to the body part such that the slot opening is moved along the body part, whereby the fan beam limited by the radiation diaphragm of the radiation source is moved synchronously relative to the camera motion. The line detector camera can be horizontally or vertically arranged.

Abstract: A dental x-ray diagnostics installation for producing panorama tomograms of the jaw of a patient has clocked CCD sensors which generate electrical signals proportional to the radiation intensity thereon, and which are operated at a speed to simulate a moving x-ray film. For the purpose of simultaneously acquiring exposures of a number of different jaw slices at different depths of field during one exposure, at least some of the CCD columns are driven with different clock frequencies by separate clock inputs.