In a method of imaging an object, for dental purposes, comprises:a) projecting a striped pattern on to the object to be imaged,b) recording the projected striped pattern as a basic image (Ri) with a camera, steps a) and b) being carried out at a number of different positions of the
phase relationship of the striped pattern, andc) computing an image of the object from the plurality of mutually out-of-
phrase basic camera images. Provision is made for suppression of periodic disturbances in that, in step c),c1) at least two groups of basic images (R1, R2, . . . , Rn; R2, R3, . . . , Rn+1) are formed from the basic camera images (R1, . . . , Rm),c2) a phase related image (Pj) of the object to be imaged (20) is computed from each group of basic images (R1, R2, . . . , Rn; R2, R3, . . . , Rn+1),c3) the computed phase related images (P1, P2) are averaged such that a phase related image (P) having a reduced amount of
noise is formed, and thatc4) an image of the object is computed from the phase related image (P) having a reduced amount of
noise.