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This page will cover the panoramic calbiration of a Proline XC units with Dimax3 sensors.

There are two required tools for panoramic calibration. You may not need the beam alignment tool or alignment ruler, but its recommended that you bring them if have them.

All the needed tools are pictured and labeled below :

*red cal block* *ball phantom* *beam alignment tool* *alignment ruler*

You will need to have didapi installed in order to perform a beam check or calibrate this unit. The version you will need will vary depending on your operating system. If you have windows 10 you will want to use Didapi 5.4.

Inside the program files directory of Didapi there is a program called beamcheck.exe and run it as administrator.

Directory : C:\Program Files\Planmeca\Didapi\beamcheck.exe

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• Select Proline Pan and press “Take the image”

You should see a “waiting for ready” message.

At this point you will need to ready up the unit, to do this :

• Make sure everything is removed from the field of view. Bitesticks, temple supports, etc.

• Press the i in the corner of the screen and select beam check

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• Select Panoramic

• Set the kV/mA to 60/4 and press ready

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Wait for the software to show “waiting for exposure” and then take the exposure.

Press OK

This is what a good beam check looks like :

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The next portion of the calibration actually creates the calibration files on the PC. You will only want to begin this process once you have a good beam check from the last step.

This section will be split into three parts. First for readying the PC, second for the unit, lastly the actual process which involves both.

For this process you will be using a program called Dimax4tool.exe, and it is in the same location as beamcheck.exe from the last step.

Directory : C:\Program Files\Planmeca\Didapi\Dimax4tool.exe

Once the program is running you can go to Settings –> Type –> Select “Proline + Dimax3”

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One last thing to check would be AGC, this is an option inside didapi config. You will want to ensure it is off.

Directory : C:\Program Files\Planmeca\Didapi\didapiconfig.exe

1. Click Proline
2. Click the image processing tab
3. Uncheck the box under “Advanced Settings” labeled “Use AGC” and click apply

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After you have this setup, you will need to setup the unit for the calibration shots.

You will want to ensure everything is still removed from the field of view like it was in beam check. No Bitesticks, temple supports, etc. should be in place.

After that you will need to attach the red calibration block that was mentioned earlier. This is affixed to the collimator itself and you will need to remove the tube head cover to get access to it. There are four 3mm allen head screws that you remove from the rear tube head cover to remove the front cover.

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Affix the red cal block as shown below.

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At this point you need to set the kV/mA according to your sensor serial# and disable radiation.

The overall process is as follows :

The Proline XC has 3 different binnings, each binning is essentially correlates the final resolution of the image.

For each binning you will need to take one shot without radiation and one with.

• Set the software to the first binning
• Take a shot at the kV/Ma that correlates to that binning WITHOUT radiation
• Take a shot at the kV/Ma that correlates to that binning WITH radiation
• Set software to the next binning and repeat

The kV/mA for each binning will vary depending on the serial number of your sensor. You can determine which values you will need at this page.

You will only need the panoramic values for the purposes of this guide. Once you have those noted you can proceed.

Set the kV/Ma value for the 4×4 binning and disable radiation by selecting the segementation screen and segmenting our all of the image.

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Now that you have the unit setup, you can ready up the software. This is done by pressing Calibrate, and then Pan in dimax4tool.

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You will get a message that states “for this part of the calibration, ensure the radiation is off”, press ok.

You should see a “waiting for ready” box on the screen after that.

Press ready on the unit.

Take your first shot without radiation

Undo the segmentation that you did before.

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Take a shot with radiation with the same kV/Ma

You should get a