Abstract: An apparatus for processing and digitizing an exposed silver halide photographic film comprises processing means in which said exposed photographic film is processed to form an analog image on said film, and digitizing means in which said analog image is photoelectrically read-out to form a digital image representing said analog image. Means for processing the exposed photographic film comprises means for developing, stabilizing and drying of said film. Digitization is effected on a photographic film which has been developed but not fixed and which retains both image-wise developed metallic silver and undeveloped silver halide grains.

Abstract: A method for reading-out a radiation image stored in a structured type photostimulable phosphor panel, wherein the phosphor is in a plurality of cells ordered in parallel rows in an inert substrate, comprising the steps of:photostimulating contemporaneously and uniformly along a scanning line all the cells belonging to the same row, causing each cell in said row to emit light according to the energy stored therein,collecting the emitted light and converting it into electrical signals, processing contemporaneously and separately the light emitted by each cell along the scanning line.