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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaki Izumi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2503272 ;
Abstract
A radiation image reading apparatus is described which is adapted to read out a radiation image from a storage phosphor plate by scanning an excitation light on the plate and detecting phosphor light caused by the scanning of the excitation light. In the apparatus, the excitation light is emitted onto each of the pixels of the plate from a plurality of laser beam sources, so that the combined total beam spots on the pixel has a sharp light intensity rising characteristics so that the image information stored on the neighboring pixels is hardly affected.