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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2004
William C. Wendlandt, Rush, NY (US);
William C. Wendlandt, Rush, NY (US);
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A storage phosphor reader includes a multicassette autoloader for vertically oriented storage phosphor cassettes, the autoloader having a front, back, and opposite sides. The autoloader includes an input bin for receiving multiple vertically oriented storage phosphor cassettes stacked together in face-to-face contact such that the cassette faces face front and back; wherein each of the cassettes contains a storage phosphor which is removable from said cassette; an output bin located beside but spaced from the input bin; and a storage phosphor read location at which a storage phosphor is removed from and replaced in a cassette positioned at the storage phosphor read location; wherein the storage phosphor read location is located at the back of the autoloader and located in a path in line with the backs of the input bin and the output bin.