Agfa-gevaert Ag

Agfa-gevaert

Agfa-gevaert Healthcare Gmbh

Agef-gevaert Ag

Jurgen Muller

Heinrich Farber

Walter Bauer

Manfred Schmidt

Alfred Rheude

Josef Pfeifer

Werner Stahl

Heinz Krobel

Rolf Eickel

Volkmar Voigtlander

Alfons Kastl

Herbert Gebele

Thomas Zehetmaier

Kurt Thate

Dieter Wauer

Michael Reichart

Francois P Loots

Luc H Leenders

Eddie R Daems

Leo Oelbrandt

Hans Louis Strijckers

Robert Fasbender

Jacobus Herman Bosschaerts

Friedrich Stumpf

Robert Theodoor Overmeer

Emile Paul Schoeters

Hans Ketterer

Rudolf Schneider

Gunter Heidrich

Werner Ihm

Hans Schaller

Georg Lechner

Remi Vanhorebeek

Dieter Tolksdorf

Emile Frans Stievenart

Maximilian Markl

Gerald Halbedl

Bernhard Zrenner

Rolf Erckel

Georges Brys

Roland Bruch

Gunther Bauer

Willy K Van Landeghem

Hendrik A Pattyn

Petrus J De Maayer

Werner Haug

Heike Kochmann

Norbert Scholz

A device and a method for reading out information stored in a storage layer (), and an X-ray cassette are proposed which make use for the purpose of erasing information stored in the storage layer () of an erasing means () which generates an erasure radiation (). This erasure radiation () can have both a first and a second intensity, the first intensity being larger than the second intensity.

Device and method for reading out information stored in a storage layer, and x-ray cartridge

An apparatus for reading information stored in a memory phosphor has a detecting device with an array of radiation-sensitive surface segments which during a pre-settable integration time interval receive a secondary radiation emitted by the memory phosphor. The apparatus includes a controller device that sets the integration time interval dependent on an amount of secondary radiation that was received at a preceding time. The controller device can also connect the radiation-sensitive surface segments into groups whose size depends on the amount of secondary radiation that was received at a preceding time.

Apparatus and method for scanning information stored in a memory phosphor

A recording process comprising the steps of: information-wise exposing to radiation a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, thereby producing a latent image; and heating the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, characterized in that the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material is on one and the same holding or guiding means during both the information-wise exposure step and the heating step; and the information-wise exposure step is carried out during the heating step; and a method of increasing the photosensitivity of a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material.

Sensitivity-increasing recording process for a photosensitive thermally

A sheet film developing device with a dark chamberside introduction of sheet films to be developed comprises a developing unit, a unit for moving a sheet film to the developing unit, a sheet film supplying unit for supplying sheet films to the developing unit, the sheet film supplying unit including a sheet film stacking device provided with a loading flap openable from outside for inserting a sheet film stack, a pulling device for pulling individual sheet films at a side of a stack opposite to the loading flap, an individual sheet supporting surface associated with the loading flap, a sheet film transporting unit arranged after the pulling device and the individual sheet supporting surface operative for guiding a sheet film from one of the individual sheet supporting surface and the sheet film stacking device in a transporting direction, and a sheet film sensing unit located in a transporting path defined by the sheet film transporting unit and operative for determining the presence of a sheet film on the individual sheet supporting surface and operative for turning off the pulling device and a part of the sheet film transporting unit located at a side of the stack and turning on the individual sheet supporting surface in response to the determining.

Sheet film developing device

An x-ray film has a flexible sheet having a front face and a rear face, a layer of an x-ray stimulable phosphor on the front face, and a layer of mangetically attractable material, for example a steel foil, on the rear face. This film is used with a film handling apparatus, normally a reader, having structure forming a flap support surface of a size at least equal to that of the film and at least one permanent magnet is imbedded in the structure and extends over the surface. Thus the rear face of the film can be adhered magnetically to the surface. An array of stripping elements is distributed over the surface and each element is displaceable through the surface between a recessed position below the surface and an advanced position projecting past the surface. An actuator can displace the elements from their withdrawn to their advanced position and thereby lift from the surface a film clinging magnetically to the surface.

X-ray imaging film and apparatus for handling it

A cassette for an x-ray film coated with a stimulable phosphor layer is formed so that a cassette memory which carries storable, recordable, readable and erasable data is rigidly attached to the cassette at the positioned spaced a predetermined distance from a given cassette corner. This position is the same for all cassettes of the same type and different formats.

X-ray cassette for sheet x-ray receiving material and method of

A handling device for X-ray film cassettes with a sheet shaped receiving material sensitive to X-rays comprises an input slot for introducing a cassette, a separate output slot for removing a cassette, the input and output slots extending substantially in the vertical direction, a cassette input stack container for accommodating cassettes to be inserted into the input slot and associated with the latter, and a cassette output stack container for receiving cassettes withdrawn from the output slot and associated with the latter, the input stack container having a bottom surface which extends downwardly towards the input slot and a rearwardly inclined rear wall which borders and aligns with the input slot, the input stack container being provided with transporting unit for a first cassette accommodated in a cassette stack and having its end side aligned with the input slot, the output stack container also having a rearwardly inclined rear wall and a downwardly forwardly inclined bottom surface provided with a catching railing for the cassettes.

Processing and treating device for x-ray film cassettes

A method and a reading station for processing a cassette containing an X-ray film coated with a layer of stimulatable phosphorus are proposed. The cassette with the film therein, before being positioned in the reading station, is exposed to X-rays to produce a latent image thereon. The film is then removed from the cassette and the phosphorus layer is brought by a laser beam scanner to luminescence so that the emitted light converts the latent image into digital electric signals stored in the central memory. The film is then erased and re-inserted into the same cassette within the reading station.

Method of processing X-ray film cassettes with phosporus-coated films

A device for producing photographic exposures of images appearing on an image screen onto a film platform carrying a plane film comprises a support holding a number of objectives and displaceable parallel to the axis extending through the central point of the image screen and the central point of the film platform. The platform carries one objective fixed to the platform of one magnifying property and four additional objectives which have such magnifying properties that each of them projects the picture field area of the screen on only one fourth of the usable film surface.

Device for producing photographic exposure of images appearing on the

An air humidifier for moisturizing air in a dry treatment device for a photographic material comprises a housing having inner walls and provided with at least one air aspiration openng and at least one air discharge opening, a moisturizable element arranged in the housing, a unit for blowing air through the moisturizable element and then through the air discharge opening to a space to be moisturized and also located in the housing, the moisturizing element being formed as a rotatable disc arranged before the air discharged opening and provided with rotary drive unit for its rotation, a light protective plate arranged between the moisturizable disc and the unit for blowing air and at least locally spaced from the inner wall of the housing so as to form throughgoing air passages, and light separating parts provided behind the throughgoing air passages and before the moisturizable disc.

Air humidifier for dry treatment device for photographic material

A device for loading and unloading an X-ray film cassette comprises a housing which has a light-proof closable compartment receiving a film cassette and provided with a sucker for removing a film from and inserting a new film into the cassette, a device for determining a format of the cassette being loaded and unloaded, and a plurality of compartments accommodating film dispensing magazines containing film stacks of different formats. The loading device further includes a control for controlling movements of the dispensing magazines and a drive arrangement provided for each of the compartments for moving an assigned dispensing magazine in an open position thereof from the respective compartment to a region of the transport rollers and back into the respective compartment.

Device for loading and unloading x-ray film cassettes

A copying apparatus, comprises a bottom, a process device for lazer beam graphic representation or for sheet film taking or sheet copying and having a housing, and a handling device for sheet films or sheets handling and having housing, the housing of the processing device being supported on the bottom in a vibration-free manner and arranged in the housing of the handling device in a contact-free manner, the housing of the handling device being arranged on the bottom.

Copying apparatus

A device for loading X-ray film cassettes comprises a housing having a compartment receiving a cassette, a plurality of boxes accommodating film dispensing magazines positioned one above another in the housing, a suction device and transport roller pairs for transporting a film sheet sucked by the suction device towards the cassette. The suction device which includes at least one sucker is displaceable between a dispensing magazine, which contains a film pack corresponding in size to that of the cassette, and the transport roller pairs so as to provide a transport path for the film sheets with very few direction changes.

Loading device for X-ray film sheet cassettes

An apparatus for processing of sheet films, comprises developing means for developing sheet films and provided with a plurality of chambers through which the sheet films are movable; pumping means for pumping a processing material; drawer receiving compartment; at least one drawer provided with a plurality of containers for liquids required by the developing means and formed so that upon insertion of the drawer into the receiving compartment a communication is established between the pumping means and a respective one of the containers.

Apparatus for processing sheet films

A plain film platform for projection screen apparatus for X-ray apparatus has a platform member, a first fixed guiding strip for a film extending along one vertical side, a second fixed guiding strip extending along a lower side near the opposite vertical side over a small part of the platform member, and a third movable guiding strip extending between the first and second guiding strips and displaceable parallel to the lower second guiding strip.

Plain film platform for projecting screen apparatus, X-ray picture

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Munich, Germany

Jurgen Muller