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Abstract

Dental-based stereotactic localizers for non-invasively inducing computer tomographic (CT) slice images of the anatomy of a patient are disclosed. The localizer includes a dental piece configured and adapted to be received in the mouth of the patient, a support structure secured to the dental piece, the support structure defining an arcuate configuration which extends to the posterior margins of the teeth of the patient thus allowing an occipital region of the head of the patient to directly contact a surface of a treatment table, and a plurality of graphic reference elements, wherein the plurality of graphic reference elements produce index information on an image scan when intersected by a plane of a scan slice, wherein the index information is used to develop a mapping of data from the image scan so as to reference the data from the image scan to a coordinate system of the dental tray.

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