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US 2017/0303872 A1Published application
Cephalostat
AssigneeCefla Societá Cooperativa
InventorsMartino Fasoli, Giacomo Zoccatelli
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Abstract
A cephalostat for acquiring teleradiographic images through an extraoral radiographic apparatus includes a pair of earpieces at the ends of two shafts and a small bar for resting again the nasion, these components being manually adjustable to adjust them to the skull of the patient under examination, wherein the cephalostat is free from metallic elements in the parts on which X-rays impinge, with the exception of radio-opaque markers, and is interchangeable with a craniostat fixed in the same apparatus seat.
Claims11
A cephalostat for acquiring teleradiographic images comprising:
- an extraoral radiographic apparatus;
- and
- a plurality of components comprising,
- a supporting element for a pair of earpieces provided at ends of two shafts;
- and
- a bar for resting again a nasion,
- wherein said components are manually adjustable in relation to a skull of a patient under examination, said components falling at least partially inside a path of an imaging x-ray beam,
- wherein said cephalostat is free from metallic parts at least in parts of said components falling inside the X-ray beams path, with exception of radio-opaque markers, and
- wherein said cephalostat is interchangeable with a craniostat fixed in a same apparatus seat.
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