Phormax Corporation

Alara, Inc.

Gary Cantu

Wayne Evans

Todd Lewis

Eric J Shrader

Sung Hoon Kim

Brian Patrick Wilfley

H Keith Nishihara

Perry Q Anderson

William Friederich Witt

Douglas A Reim

James Olef Jensen

Heather Klaubert

Ron Smith

A combined imaging plate scanning and erasing system, comprising: (a) a housing; (b) an imaging plate cassette infeed assembly positioned within the housing, the maging plate cassette infeed assembly comprising: (i) a mechanism to pull an imaging plate cassette into the housing; (ii) a mechanism to open the imaging plate cassette; and (iii) a mechanism to remove an imaging plate from the cassette; (c) a scanner positioned within the housing; (d) a curved path erasing assembly positioned between the imaging plate infeed assembly and the scanner; and (e) an imaging plate transportation assembly to move the imaging plate back and forth in a path extending from the imaging plate cassette, past the erasing assembly and through a scan area adjacent to the scanner.

Phosphor imaging plate and cassette handling system

A system for scanning an imaging plate, comprising: a continuous belt drive; a first scanning head mounted to the belt drive; a second scanning head mounted to the belt drive; and a laser positioned to direct a laser beam in a beam path across the imaging plate, wherein the continuous belt drive is positioned to sequentially move each of the first and second scanning heads in a path collinear with the laser beam path when moving across the imaging plate.

Phosphor screen scanning systems

A multiple-head scanning device (,) for reading an image stored on a photostimulable phosphor storage screen (,), comprising, a rotatable frame having a center (,) and an outer perimeter (,); a photomultiplier tube (,) mounted to the rotatable frame at a location proximal the center (,) of the rotatable frame; a plurality of radially extending optical trains (,) mounted to the rotatable frame at 120 degrees to one another, each optical train (,) configured to direct incident laser light towards phosphor storage screen (,) and to direct response radiation emitted by phosphor storage (,) screen in response to the incident laser light towards the photomultiplier tube (,).

Multiple-head phosphor screen scanner

Hand held phosphor screen scanner

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Gary Cantu