Table 1: Beam angle accuracy.

Scoring System Ap View Lateral View
RRR RS RRR RS
Excellent: > 6 mm 206 (54%) 349 (91%) 115 (30%) 321 (84%)
Good: 3-6mm 154 (40%) 30(8%) 94 (25%) 39 (10%)
Fair: 1-3 mm 15 (4%) 1 (0.5%) 52 (13%) 3 (1%)
Poor : overlapping or if a component was excluded from the film 7 (2%) 2 (0.5%) 121 (32%) 19 (5%)
P Value ( p <0 .001 )* ( p <0 .001 )*
Correlation coefficient (0.295) (0.521)

mm: millimetres *A p value of 0.01 or less is significant