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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1986
Shumpeita Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A radiation image read-out apparatus for scanning a stimulable phosphor sheet, which has been subjected to image recording in the form housed in a cassette, with stimulating rays which cause the stimulable phosphor sheet to emit light in proportion to the stored radiation energy, and photoelectrically detecting the emitted light to read out a radiation image stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet comprises a conveyance device and a shutter movement device. The conveyance device conveys a cassette, which is constituted by a cassette body housing the stimulable phosphor sheet and a light shielding shutter slideable on the cassette body, in a direction normal to the scanning direction of stimulating rays. The shutter movement device moves the light shielding shutter with respect to the cassette body to lay the stimulable phosphor sheet bare at a scanning position of stimulating rays as the cassette is conveyed.