High-detail X-ray cameras for dental scans

Miniature MEMS technology originally developed for micro-propulsion systems on Sweden’s Prisma microsatellite has been adapted to produce a new, thinner and high resolution scintillator – a device that converts X-rays into ordinary light – for dental X-rays. The dental X-ray camera was designed by the Scint-X company with the key element – the scintillator – built by Nanospace, a subsidiary of the Swedish Space Corporation. Being much thinner than current X-ray cameras on the market its images are more detailed, and the camera can be inserted right into the patient’s mouth.