Planmeca

[Kenneth Abramovitch]

Andre,

I believe that some of the older units (20-30 years ago) such as Belmont and
SS White units also had exposure settings based on anatomic sites.  The
current Siemens MD70 also does.   So it is not a new idea.  What is
disappointing to me is that I know of practitioners today (graduates for m
the 1960's) that still use the same setting for any intraoral view.  So
there appears to be some wisdom from the manufacturers to post settings
based on the anatomic site.

regards,

Ken


At 12:07 PM 6/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>We recently bought a Planmeca Prostyle Intra x-ray unit. It turns out
>that the selection of different anatomic sites results in an automatic
>adjustment of both kVp (60-70) and exposure time. Planmeca claims it
>provides better images this way. Traditionally, the differences between
>anatomic sites is only compensated for by exposure time adjustment.
>Changing the kVp results in different subject contrast, which could be
>useful for certain diagnostic tasks.
>
>This may not have any significant practical implications, but I would
>appreciate to have your thoughts on Planmeca's approach, whether you
>have any experience with this machine, or with others that operate in
>the same way.
>
>Thanks for your response.
>
>Andre
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>Andre Mol, DDS, PhD
>University of Rochester Eastman Dental Center
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