… Unlike CBCT systems, the MSCT scanners include pre-patient beam shaping filters to
compensate for patient attenuation at the detector signal level by spatially shaping the X-ray field …

… shaped liked a cone rather than a fan as in conventional … After this beam passes through the
patient the remnant beam is … ray beam in a cone-beam unit diverges as a cone to the patient …

… Major artifacts may derive from patient jaw movement and from dense dental restorative
materials. Furthermore; altering CBCT geometrical configurations create a variable expression …

… The cone beam of the x-ray is attenuated through the patient … the FOV as the conical x-ray
beam sweeps the required … problem, namely how can the patient image (which is the 3D …

… Imaging is an important diagnostic adjunct to the clinical assessment of the dental patient.
The introduction of panoramic radiography in the 1960s and its widespread adoption …

… any current dental imaging protocol series, it is timely to recommend the development of
rigorous training standards in maxillofacial CBCT imaging in the interests of our patients who …

… In accordance with the “as-low-as-reasonably-achievable” (ALARA) principle, radiation
dose for dental patients should be optimized to achieve the lowest practical level to address a …

… Both of these considerations justify the use of CBCT for a subset of dental patients but
proper nuance is needed. The added value of 3D imaging, at least when used routinely, is …

… quality control and patient dose measurements in a cone beam computed tomography (CT) …
panoramic dental systems were also performed: tube output, beam size and beam alignment …

… Another commonly observed artifact in dental cone beam imaging is associated with patient
motion. This artifact may appear as shading or streaking in the reconstructed image, double …