Taking A 3D Exposure - Planmeca ProMax 3D Plus User Manual

3D PATIENT EXPOSURE
9.7

Taking a 3D exposure

42 Planmeca ProMax 3D Plus & 3D Mid with ProTouch
NOTE Make sure that you have selected the correct patient
Forward
button
Green lights
Flashing green =
Getting ready
Continuous green =
Ready
Yellow lights
and exposure mode in the Planmeca Romexis
program.
1. Select the forward button.
Green lights flash on the touch screen and exposure
button when the X-ray system is getting ready for an
exposure. The green lights stop flashing and stay on
continuously when the X-ray system is ready for an
exposure.
2. Ask the patient to stay as still as possible.
• If you take a 3D face photo at the same time, tell
the patient that the lights on the sides of the sensor
will flash during exposure but he should not be
startled and move. Ask the patient to either keep
his eyes shut or to focus them on a fixed point so
that the eyes are not half open in the image.
3. Move to a protected area.
4. Press and hold down the exposure button for the entire
duration of the exposure.
During exposure yellow radiation warning lights
illuminate on the exposure switch and on the touch
screen, and you hear a radiation warning tone.
Additionally, a radiation warning symbol is shown on
the touch screen.
The C-arm moves around the patient's head.
• Planmeca ProMax 3D Mid units:
If you take two vertical image volumes the lower
volume is imaged first and the upper volume last.
The C-arm is automatically moved upwards
between the volumes. You hear a warning tone
when the C-arm moves up.
• If you take two horizontal image volumes the
patient's left side is imaged first and the right side
last.
• If you take one image volume and a 3D face photo
the X-ray image is taken first and the photo last.
You hear a fast ticking sound when the photo is
taken.
• Planmeca ProMax 3D Mid units:
If you take two vertical image volumes and a 3D
face photo the photo is taken between the X-ray
images. You hear a fast ticking sound when the
photo is taken and a warning tone when the C-arm
moves up.
• If you take two horizontal image volumes and a 3D
face photo the photo is taken last. You hear a fast
ticking sound when the photo is taken.
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