Method and system for generating dental panoramic images with sharpened depiction of clinically relevant, patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• provide at least one initial panoramic image reconstructed by using a plurality of projectional images of a patient and an initial layer including the mapping points corresponding to a patient's dental regions, to be sharply depicted in the initial panoramic image,
• detect one or more clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures in the initial panoramic image to provide anatomical data relating to the spatial characteristics of the detected clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures respectively;
• compute, using the anatomical data and the initial panoramic image, a new layer which includes the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structure to provide a sharper depiction of the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures in a new panoramic image to be reconstructed compared to the depiction of the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structure in the initial panoramic image;
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• reconstruct the new panoramic image using the plurality of projectional images of the patient and the computed new layer.

A computerized x-ray system for reconstructing a panoramic image, comprising program instructions which when executed by the computerized x-ray system cause the computerized x-ray system to:

• provide at least one initial panoramic image reconstructed by using a plurality of projectional images of a patient and an initial layer including the mapping points corresponding to a patient's dental regions, to be sharply depicted in the initial panoramic image,
• detect one or more clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures in the initial panoramic image to provide anatomical data relating to the spatial characteristics of the detected clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures respectively;
• compute, using the anatomical data and the initial panoramic image, a new layer which includes the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structure to provide a sharper depiction of the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structures in a new panoramic image to be reconstructed compared to the depiction of the clinically relevant patient-specific pre-selected anatomical structure in the initial panoramic image;
• and
• reconstruct the new panoramic image using the plurality of projectional images of the patient and the computed new layer.