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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2005
Bernd Gerstlauer, Munich, DE;
Detlef Brautmeier, Unterschleiβheim, DE;
Rainer Nebosis, Munich, DE;
Axel Kasper, Munich, DE;
Bernd Gerstlauer, Munich, DE;
Detlef Brautmeier, Unterschleiβheim, DE;
Rainer Nebosis, Munich, DE;
Axel Kasper, Munich, DE;
Agfa-Gevaert HealthCare GmbH, Leverkusen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus and associated method for reading out X-ray information of an X-ray picture stored in a phosphor layer includes: an irradiation device for irradiating the phosphor layer with a stimulating light beam to be moved along a line over the phosphor layer, and in so doing stimulating the phosphor layer into emitting emission light; a detector for collecting the emission light emitted from the storage phosphor layer and for converting the emission light collected into a detector signal S; a processing unit for deducing picture signal values B for pixels of the picture along the line from the detector signal S; and two or more sensors located at different reference positions to collect reference times when the light beam is located at the different reference positions. The processing unit deduces a number of detector signal values D from the detector signal S to deduce the picture signal values B between the two reference times.