Agfa-gevaert Ag

Agfa-gevaert Healthcare Gmbh

Walter Hofmuth

Alfons Kastl

Helmut Schausberger

Rudolf Loistl

Anton Pirmann

Roland Müller

Jurgen Mueller

Anton Wimmer

An apparatus () for reading out X-ray information stored in a storage phosphor layer () includes a support () onto which a storage phosphor plate () is laid. The storage phosphor plate () comprises the storage phosphor layer () and a support layer () onto which the storage phosphor layer () is applied. Furthermore, a controller () is provided for processing X-ray information read out from the storage phosphor layer (). According to the invention, a distance sensor () serves to determine a distance of the distance sensor () from the storage phosphor plate () lying on the support (), and the controller () is designed such that it processes the X-ray information read out from the storage phosphor layer () dependently upon the distance determined by means of the distance sensor (). An unlevelness determined by means of the distance sensor () is taken into account by the controller () when processing the X-ray information read out. In this way, a good image quality of an X-ray image read out is guaranteed in a technically simple way.

Apparatus for reading out X-ray information stored in storage phosphor layer

An apparatus and method for developing a s photographic emulsion carrier in a plurality of processing tanks through which the emulsion carrier travels in succession, with at least one rotatable roller, the photographic emulsion carrier having a front section and an end section and the roller being arranged such that an end section of the photographic emulsion carrier comes into contact with the roller while travelling from a first to a second processing tank, the direction of rotation of the roller being designed so that the roller can wipe the end section in a direction is away from the emulsion carrier.

Apparatus and method for developing a photographic emulsion carrier

Apparatus for developing a photographic emulsion carrier. The carrier travels through a succession of tanks of photographic processing fluid. The apparatus includes mechanisms that forward the carrier through the tanks, a drive device that operates the forwarding mechanisms, guides that guide the carrier from one tank into the next, and means that connect an inlet for each processing fluid with its associated tank. The apparatus also includes at least one separate assembly associated with at least one tank, for forming a cascade which includes means for conveying the processing fluid from at least one cascade stage to the tank. The assembly, for forming the cascade is a separate module that rests as a cover on the tanks and has a separate inlet for receiving processing fluid. The cascade assembly accommodates a mechanism that forwards the carrier through it. This mechanism couples with the mechanisms that forward the carrier through the tanks while the cascade assembly is resting on them.

Cascade assembly for use with apparatus for developing a photographic

A method of drying a developed, wet sheet carrier, especially an X-ray film after passing through a development device includes passing the sheet carrier through a dryer which has several infrared radiators arranged along the path of the sheet carrier at its both sides and reflectors provided at the side away from the sheet carrier and deflecting the infrared radiator to the facing side of the sheet carrier. The method is performed so that a main stream is supplied at both sides of the sheet carrier at the rear side of the reflectors, a partial air stream is supplied between each infrared radiator and the sheet carrier, and then each partial air stream is united with the main air stream so that the temperature and the moisture of the main air stream increases in a flow direction.

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Munich, Germany

Walter Hofmuth