Patents Assigned to Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare GmbH
  • Patent number: 7071484
    Abstract: A device for acquiring information that is contained in a phosphor layer which includes a light source (2) for irradiating and exciting the phosphor layer (1) to produce emission light (4) containing the information, a detector (6) for acquiring the emission light (4) produced in the phosphor layer (1) and a filter device (8), which is arranged between the phosphor layer (1) and the detector (6) and/or between the phosphor layer (1) and the light source (2). To increase the reliability in the acquisition of the emission light (4), the filter device (8) includes at least two filter elements structured as absorption filters and joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Lind, Ralph Thoma, Georg Reiser, Christian Schulz
  • Patent number: 7005655
    Abstract: A storage phosphor panel for storing image information and an X-ray cassette with such a storage phosphor panel are proposed. The storage phosphor panel contains a carrier layer and a storage phosphor layer, which is applied on the carrier layer. The storage phosphor panel furthermore has a contour which is configured as an autonomous part relative to the carrier layer and is connected to the carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Stahl, Olaf Klabunde
  • Patent number: 6998633
    Abstract: A device and method for reading out information stored in a storage layer using a receiving device. The storage layer is supported on a support surface that is defined by an x-y plane and a relative movement is generated between the receiving device and the storage layer in the x direction. The receiving device or the storage layer is guided during the generation of the relative movement by a guide system on a guide surface. Using first and second partial guides, an interspacing is adjusted in a z direction that lies perpendicular to the x-y plane, on either side—viewed in the z direction—of the support surface. The guide surface is independent of the storage layer and the first and second partial guides are connected to one another and are pretensioned against one another, and act in a pincer-like manner on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Stahl