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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1985
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A radiographic system for obtaining a visible radiation image using a stimulable phosphor sheet, including an improved spot shot apparatus having a transport system for transporting the stimulable sheets from a supply magazine to a receiving magazine through a park and exposure station where exposure to radiation occurs. A plurality of the sheet are stacked in the supply magazine and are sequentially transported through the exposure station to the receiving magazine by the transport system. The transport system has independent transport portions for transporting a stimulable phosphor sheet from the supply magazine to the receiving magazine through the exposure station. One transporting channel is disposed between the supply magazine and the exposure station and retains the unexposed stimulable phosphor sheet until an advanced stimulable phosphor sheet is exposed to form and store radiographic image therein and is fed toward the receiving magazine. When the advanced exposed stimulable phosphor sheet is forwarded to the receiving magazine, the following unexposed stimulable phosphor sheet remaining in the first transporting portion is fed to the exposure station by means of the second transporting portion.