Planmeca Proline XC Panoramic Use and care manual

PLANMECA
Proline XC Pan/Ceph
Calibration Manual

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The manufacturer, assembler, and importer are responsible for the safety,
reliability and performance of the unit only if:
-Installation, calibration, modification and repairs are carried out by
qualified authorized personnel.
-Electrical installations are carried out according to the appropriate
requirements such as IEC364.
-Equipment is used according to the operating instructions
Planmeca pursues a policy of continual product development. Although every
effort is made to produce up-to-date product documentation this publication
should not be regarded as an infallible guide to current specifications. We
reserve the right to make changes without prior notice.
COPYRIGHT PLANMECA USA 2008-05
PUBLICATION Revision 5 JO

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Table of Contents
Chapter A: General Information
1. Disclaimer 5
2. Required Tools 7
2.1. Calibration Tools 7
2.1.a. Digital Panoramic 7
2.1.b. Digital Cephalometric 8
2.2. Hand Tools 9
Chapter B: Panoramic
1. Beam Alignment 11
1.1. Collimator 0 13
1.1.a. High / Low 14
1.1.b. Left / Right 14
1.1.c. Angled 15
1.2. Collimator 1 16
1.2.a. Left / Right 16
2. Beam Check 17
2.1. Connecting to the computer 17
2.1.a. Network Interface Box connections 18
2.1.b. Didapi Configuration 18
2.2 Setting up Beam Check 18
2.3 Beam Check on the computer 20
3. Calibrating 21
3.1 Setting up the computer 21
3.1.a Dimax3 Tool 21
3.1.b Turning radiation Off/On 22
3.1.b.i OFF 22
3.1.b.ii ON 22
3.1.c kV/mA settings for Panoramic 23
3.1.d Changing Binnings 23
4. Ball Phantom 24
4.1. Setting up the touch screen 24
4.2. Dimaxis Pro 4.x.x 27
4.3 Checking Image 28
4.3.a Center Ball 28
4.3.a.i Too Thin 29
4.3.a.ii Too Fat 29
4.3.b 10
th
Ball 30
4.3.b.i Too Left 30
4.2.b.ii Too Right 31
4.2.b.iii Moving the Table 31
4.3.c Shadow Ball 32
4.3.c.i Too Left/ Too Right 32
4.4 Patient Positioning Light Alignment 33
4.4.a Midsaggital Light Beam 36
4.4.b Frankfort Light Beam 36
4.4.c Focal Layer Light Beam 37

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Chapter C: Cephalometric
1. Beam Alignment 39
1.1 Collimator C 41
1.1.a Too Left 42
1.1.b Too Right 42
1.1.c High / Low 42
1.2 Collimator D 42
1.2.a Left 43
1.2.b Right 43
2. Ceph Head Leveling 43
2.1 Computer Setup 44
2.2 Left / Right 47
2.2.a Left 47
2.2.b Right 47
2.3 Up / Down 47
2.3.a Up 47
2.3.b Down 47
3. Beaver Tail 48
3.1 Left / Right 49
3.2 High / Low 49
3.3 Angled 51
3.3.a Left 51
3.3.b Right 52
4. Beam Check 52
4.1 Setting up Beam Check 52
5. Calibrating 54
5.1 kV/mA 54
5.2 Computer 55
5.3 Dimax3 Tool 56
5.3.a Not together 57
5.3.a.i Raise Up 57

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Chapter
A General Information
1DISCLAIMER
This manual contains the information required to setup and calibrate the
Planmeca Proline XC Panoramic with Cephalometric X-ray unit for
Digital.
WARNING
Protect yourself from radiation when you are checking the beam
alignment and calibrating. Since radiation safety requirements vary from
state to state, country to country, it is the responsibility of the installer to
ensure that the correct precautions are observed.
1.1 The display values shown in this guide are only examples
and should be interpreted as recommended values unless
otherwise specified.

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2REQUIRED TOOLS
2.1. Calibration Tools
2.1.a. Digital Panoramic
Ball phantom (part number 50971) used for checking the position of the
Patient Positioning Mechanism and the Positioning lights. (Figure 1)
Figure 1
Frankfort plane alignment tool (part number 50977) used with the ball
phantom for checking the position of the Frankfort plane light. (Figure 2)
Figure 2
Beam alignment tool, fluorescent screen, (part number 50972) used for
checking the position of the x-ray beam. (Figure 3)
Figure 3

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Sensor alignment tool (part number 10002699) used for checking the beam
alignment. (Figure 4)
Figure 4
Panoramic mode calibration block, red calibration block, (part number
665413) used for calibrating the panoramic sensor head. (Figure 5)
Figure 5
2.1.b. Digital Cephalometric
Cephalostat calibration tool (part number 10002935) used for calibrating the
cephalostat. (Figure 6)
Figure 6

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Left and Right ear posts (part number 651003, 651005) used for aligning the
ball and ring on the cephalostat. (Figure 7)
Figure 7
2.2 Hand Tools
2 mm allen wrench
2.5 mm allen wrench
3 mm allen wrench
4 mm allen wrench
•Short
•Long
Pliers
Adjustable wrench

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Chapter
B Panoramic
1Beam Alignment
Removing the covers
Unscrew the Tube head cover with a 3mm allen (Figure 8) and remove the front
cover.
Figure 8
Unhook the two corners of the C-Arm cover and remove the cover. (Figure 9a & 9b)
Figure 9a Figure 9b

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Primary Collimator
Press the ibutton in the lower left-hand corner. (Figure 10)
Figure 10
Press the down arrow and press Service Settings (Figure 11)
Figure 11
The password is 1701. (Figure 12) Press the down arrow four times and press
Primary Collimator
Figure 12

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NOTE: Make sure beam alignment tool is attached to the sensor alignment tool. (Figure 13)
Figure 13
1.1 Collimator 0 (adult)
Now press the exposure button to see where the radiation beam is hitting the
screen.
The beam image should appear within the borders of the rectangle markings
on the alignment tool. (Figure 14)
U P
D O
W
N
Figure 14
If not too left, right, up, down, or angled see below.

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1.1.a High / Low
If the beam is too high or too low then loosen the two screws on the
face of the collimator with a 2.5 mm allen. (Figure 15)
Figure 15
Tighten the bottom screw and take another exposure to check the
alignment. If aligned then re-tighten the top screw. If not aligned then
loosen bottom screw again, adjust, retighten then take another
exposure.
1.1.b Left / Right
If the beam is too left or right, press the left or right button on the
touch screen. (Figure 16)
Figure 16
NOTE: Pressing the left button will move the beam to the right and right will move the beam
to the left.
Take another exposure and check the alignment. If aligned, push Next
until you come back to 0.

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1.1.c Angled
If the beam is angled, loosen up the three screws at left, top, and
bottom with a 1.5 mm allen. (Figure 17a-c)
Figure 17a Figure 17b
Figure 17c
Tighten the screws and take another exposure at the beam. Repeat if
still angled. If aligned, move onto Collimator 1 by pressing Next.

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1.2 Collimator 1 (child)
Now press the exposure button to see where the radiation beam is hitting
screen. The beam image should appear within the borders of the rectangle
markings on the fluorescent screen. The beam should fill, from the bottom up,
three quarters of the alignment tool. (Figure 18)
U
P
Figure 18
NOTE: The beam in Collimator 1 will not have to be adjusted up or down, if Collimator 0 is aligned
first.
1.2.a Left / Right
If the beam is too left or right, press the left or right button on the
touch screen. Take another exposure and check the alignment. If
aligned, push Next until you come back to 1. Click OK and move onto
checking your Ball Phantom.
NOTE: If unable to move collimator over enough, loosen the securing screw (Figure 19),
rotate the tab slightly and retighten the screw. The collimator should be rechecked, if
unaligned then start over at Collimator 0.
Figure 19
Move onto Beam Check if beam is aligned.

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2Beam Check
NOTE: Make sure that the x-ray machine is connected to the computer
2.1 Connecting to a computer
Plug a CAT-5 into the isolated port on the keyboard processor. (Figure 20 &
20a)
Figure 20a Figure 20
Plug a planet cable into the base of the XC. (Figure 21)
Figure 21
Plug that planet cable into a y-connector, dongle. (Figure 22)
Figure 22

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2.1.a Network Interface Box Connections (Figure 23)
1. Crossover Cable (has red end caps)
2. Y-connector, dongle
3. CAT-5 cable (port 1)
4. Power cable
1 2 3 4
2.1.b Didapi Configuration
Click Start, Click All Programs and select Planmeca, then
select Didapi Configuration.
Click on Ethernet Interface.
The default ip address is 192.168.0.135
Click on Proline which will open Windows Notepad. Put the
below in:
localhost=(ip address):5120/1
Save the file and click refresh. Close Didapi Configuration.
2.2 Setting up Beam Check
Press the iicon on the lower hand corner of the touch screen. (Figure 24)
Figure 24

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Press Beam Check. (Figure 25)
Figure 25
NOTE: If the sensor was calibrated first, remember to remove the red calibration block from the
collimator.
Press Panoramic which will bring you to the Beam Check Panoramic
screen. (Figure 26)
Figure 26

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2.3 Beam Check on the computer
NOTE: Make sure the sensor is in the sensor holder.
Click on Start, Click All Programs then Planmeca then Beam Check then click
Proline Pan
Press Ready on the touch screen then press the exposure button. (Figure 27)
Figure 27
Image should be the same top and bottom, left and right. (Figure 28)
Figure 28
Follow Section 1.1.a.i-iii on pgs. 14-15 if not aligned properly.