DEVICE FOR PERFORMING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY EXAMINATION OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ARTICULATION Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has base, horizontal and vertical sliders, articulation and front rest members and bed. The base has anterior and posterior support members rigidly joined by means of horizontal guiding members and vertical guiding members fixed on the back support member. The horizontal slider is movably mounted on horizontal guiding members. It has inferior part with bed fixed in the center and two lateral parts with articulation rest members. Two parallel vertical guiding members are rigidly fixed on the back support member with vertical slider having front rest member mounted on them. The bed has supporting member having vertically and horizontally movable members. EFFECT: stable head position fixation; producing identical computer tomogram images in repeated examinations. 3 cl, 2 dwg