Radiant energy – Source with recording detector – Using a stimulable phosphor
Patent
1993-03-25
1994-08-23
Fields, Carolyn E.
Radiant energy
Source with recording detector
Using a stimulable phosphor
2504844, G01N 2304
Patent
active
053409957
ABSTRACT:
Scanning apparatus for scanning a cassette of the type used form photo-stimulable phosphor luminescence (PSL) radiography that includes a rigid base plate carrying a PSL layer thereon and a cover adapted to be releasably secured to the base plate in overlying relation to the PSL layer, in which a cassette is removed one-by-one from an input stack of a number of cassettes arranged with the plates thereof in generally vertical orientation and transported to a separating station for removal of the cover, to a scanning station for scanning of a PSL image thereon, to an erasing station for erasing the scanned image, and to a re-assembly station for re-assembly of the cover and base plate, all while the base plate is maintained in generally vertical orientation and preferably is displaced only within its own plane. The re-assembled cassettes are stacked vertically in an output stack for removal from the apparatus.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5090567 (1992-02-01), Boutet
patent: 5180915 (1993-01-01), Ohgoda
Boeve Gerard
Verbeke Gentil
Agfa-Gevaert N. V.
Daniel William J.
Fields Carolyn E.
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