Integrated Dental Imaging System with Sliding Radiation Generator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Dental CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography require separate apparatuses and positions, causing inconvenience for both patients and operators due to the need for multiple equipment setups and movements.
Innovation Solution
A dental complex imaging system that integrates CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography capabilities into a single system, using a base, chair, support, expanding and contracting parts, radiation generator, and detecting components to allow for various imaging modalities without position changes for the patient or operator.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate apparatuses are used for CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography, then each imaging function can be performed with dedicated equipment, but the operator and patient must move to different positions or additional apparatus must be mounted, causing inconvenience and increased complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography functions into a single integrated apparatus. The radiation generator and detector can be positioned at different locations (above or below the patient) to perform all three imaging functions without requiring separate devices or additional apparatus mounting, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining functional versatility
Solution Approach 2:
The apparatus is designed with universal capability to perform multiple imaging functions using the same basic structure. The radiation generator and detector system can be configured for CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography, allowing one device to replace multiple specialized apparatuses and eliminating the need for position movements or additional equipment
2Ease of operation
If multiple separate apparatuses are used for different imaging modalities, then each modality can be optimized independently, but the overall system requires multiple equipment setups and position changes
Solution Approach 1:
By merging all three imaging functions into one apparatus, the system eliminates the time lost in moving between different equipment locations and setting up multiple devices. The operator can perform CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography sequentially without leaving the same position, significantly reducing operational time and improving convenience
3Ease of operation
If a single integrated system is used for all imaging functions, then operational convenience is improved, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated apparatus is segmented into functional modules: a radiation generator portion that can be positioned above or below the patient, a detector portion, and a support structure. This modular segmentation allows the system to achieve multiple imaging functions while maintaining manageable structural complexity through functional decomposition
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This integrated system provides convenience and cost savings by eliminating the need for multiple equipment setups, allowing for efficient conductance of CT imaging, panoramic radiography, and cephalography within a single system.
Implementation Method 1
a radiation generator part disposed below one side of the expanding and contracting part and moving according to expansion and contraction of the expanding and contracting part for emitting radiation
Implementation Method 2
a radiation detecting part disposed on the other side of the expanding and contracting part in such a way as to be opposed to the radiation generator part for detecting radiation selectively emitted from the radiation generator part
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AI summary
A dental complex imaging system includes a base and chair on the base for allowing a patient sit; a base-mounted pole adjacent to the chair; a support part extending toward the patient; an expanding and contracting part pivotally coupled to the support part; a radiation generator that moves with the part for emitting radiation for an imaging mode selected from cephalography, panoramic radiography, and CT scanning; a detector disposed on the other side of the part and opposed to the generator; and a controller for reading imaging information, wherein the generator is disposed to slide to adjust a distance between itself and the detector according to the imaging mode while the patient sits on the chair.