Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Michael Vieth

Oliver Hayden

Wolfgang Clemens

Sandro Francesco Tedde

Gottfried Lange

Wolfgang Schelter

Roland Weiss

Ludwig Schmidt

Helmut Eckert

Ludwig Bär

Contactless potentiometer and device for contactlessly sensing a

An apparatus for producing x-ray images by computer radiography has a storage plate on which x-rays are incident after passing through an examination subject, and an image reader for detecting the photo-stimulatable luminescence of the storage plate. The storage plate has a carrier which is impenetrable by the radiation beams used for detecting the luminescence, the carrier having two major flat sides each having a photostimulatable storage layer thereon. Each side has a read-out system associated therewith for double sided read-out of the storage plate. By undertaking a double-sided read-out, increased absorption of the x-rays in the storage plate can be exploited, and thus a correspondingly increased efficiency in the read-out can be obtained.

Apparatus for producing x-ray images by computer radiography

An X-ray camera with a storage plate is used to generate an image to be read by a reproducer with an image reader to scan the photo-stimulated luminescence of the storage plate. Several detectors are provided, each being so correlated with several picture elements of a picture line that consecutive picture elements are each connected via a light waveguide of a first array of light waveguides to different detectors. In this arrangement, each photo-stimulated light signal of an adjacent picture element is processed by a different detector so that afterglow of the picture elements has no influence on the read-out time.

Arrangement for the production of X-ray pictures by computer radiography

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Eltersdorf, Germany

Michael Vieth