Device and process for reading out X-ray information stored in a phosphor plate

US7256413B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Roland Muller · Weiling, DE
• Günther Schindlbeck · Munich, DE
• Volkmar Voigtlander · Eichenau, DE
• Peter Schwelle · Weilheim, DE
• Olaf Klabunde · Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, DE
• Andreas Dier · Munich, DE
• Jean-Didier Labarte · Munich, DE
• Edwin Kieselbach · Ingolstadt, DE
• Rudolf Werkstetter · Neuötting, DE
• Werner Stahl · Heimstetten, DE
• Johannes Holzl · Grasbrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 2005
• Grant date: Aug 14, 2007
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N2201/0412
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for reading out X-ray information stored in a phosphor plate for simplified and solid guiding and/or holding of phosphor plates, with at the same time a high degree of compactness, includes: a device for holding and/or conveying the phosphor plate in an orientation inclined by an inclination angle α in relation to a vertical in which the phosphor plate is flat in form; and a read-out device for reading out the flat phosphor plate inclined by the inclination angle α in relation to the vertical.