SafeBeam™ Technology: Automatically Adjusting Radiation Dose

Featured in all NewTom CBCT units, SafeBeam™ automatically adjusts the radiation dosage according to the density of the volume in the gantry. This technology uses intermittent bursts of radiation, which last only milliseconds, during image acquisition.

SafeBeam™ technology automatically and continuously monitors system operations, thereby eliminating the possibility of unnecessary exposures. NewTom GiANO also has a wide range of adjustments for the X-ray voltage and current (kV 60-90 and mA=1-10), so that every patient exposure can be customers for every scan, while image quality stays consistent, regardless of patient size or bone dentisity.

FOV Range

The FOV range most suited to analysis of the different anatomic regions is governed by international standards which are based on the ”ALARA” principle (As Low As Reasonably Achievable), which aims at reducing the effective dose absorbed by the patient.

The use of a small FOV in addition to reducing the dimension of the irradiated region, provides a dramatic increase in the accuracy and resolution of images for all pathologies where it is necessary to identify very small details at high definition. On the contrary, with one single rotation, a bigger FOV permits the operator to scan patients where the referring doctors need to see the major part of the anatomical regions of the patient.

Wider focal through advance kinematics

NewTom GiANO employs a specially synchronised kinematics made up of one rotary movement combined with two simultaneous translatory movements, which ensure constant magnification in all projections, thus leading to highly reliable diagnostic images.

The simultaneous translatory movements keep the X-ray detector at a constant distance from the midline of the dental arch, throughout the entire scan, so that the image magnification is constant and uniform in the resulting radiograph.